Increasing the amount of physical activity undertaken after stroke

Physical Therapy Reviews

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 91-100

  Ada, Louise ^a   Dean, Catherine M ^a   Mackey, Fiona H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Illawarra Regional Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

EXERCISE; HEMIPLEGIA; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; REHABILITATION; STROKE

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447292200     PISSN: 10833196     EISSN: 1743288X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/108331906X98994     Document Type: Article

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