Effects of movement imagery and electromyography-triggered feedback on arm-hand function in stroke patients in the subacute phase

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 587-594

  Hemmen, B ^a   Seelen, Ham ^a  

^a Adelante Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION RESEARCH; ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOLLOW UP; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGERY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOVEMENT THERAPY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PARESIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REHABILITATION CENTER; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STROKE PATIENT; WRIST;

ADULT; AGED; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 34547849525     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269215507075502     Document Type: Article

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