Effects of locomotion training with assistance of a robot-driven gait orthosis in hemiparetic patients after stroke: A randomized controlled pilot study

Stroke

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 349-354

  Husemann, Britta ^a   Müller, Friedemann ^a   Krewer, Carmen ^a   Heller, Silke ^a   Koenig, Eberhardt ^a  

^a Neurological Clinic Bad Aibling   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gait; Rehabilitation; Stroke

Indexed keywords

FAT;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVENTION STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOBILIZATION; ORTHOSIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROBOTICS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; TRAINING; TREADMILL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; GAIT; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PILOT PROJECTS; ROBOTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846569454     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000254607.48765.cb     Document Type: Article

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