Randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effect of surface neuromuscular electrical stimulation to the shoulder after acute stroke

Stroke

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2995-3001

  Church, Catherine ^a,b,c,d   Price, Christopher ^a,b,c   Pandyan, Anand D ^e   Huntley, Stuart ^a,b   Curless, Richard ^a,b,c   Rodgers, Helen ^a,b,c,d,f  

^a NORTH TYNESIDE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b WANSBECK GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arm; Function; Randomized controlled trials; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHOULDER PAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SHOULDER; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845381575     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000248969.78880.82     Document Type: Article

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