Are clinical characteristics associated with upper-extremity hypertonia in severe ischaemic supratentorial stroke?

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-37

  van Kuijk, Annette A ^a,b   Hendricks, Henk T ^a   Pasman, Jaco W ^a   Kremer, Berry H ^a   Geurts, Alexander C ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Revalidatiecentrum Leijpark   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hypertonia; Incidence; Risk factors; Stroke; Upper extremity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APRAXIA; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; ASHWORTH SCALE; BARTHEL INDEX; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FUGL MEYER MOTOR ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; INCIDENCE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; NEGLECT; PREVALENCE; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STROKE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ARM; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; ARM; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33947522819     PISSN: 16501977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/16501977-0009     Document Type: Article

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