Gait rehabilitation with body weight-supported treadmill training for a blast injury survivor with traumatic brain injury

Brain Injury

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 93-100

  Scherer, Matthew ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FACE INJURY; FACE SURGERY; GAIT DISORDER; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IRAQ; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RANCHO LOS AMIGOS SCALE; SEIZURE; SOLDIER; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURVIVOR; THERAPY EFFECT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 34250714862     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699050601149104     Document Type: Article

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