Wrist splint for upper motor neuron paralysis [9]

Stroke

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Shah, Surya ^a,b  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTURE; FINGER; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; LETTER; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASTICITY; SPLINT; TENDON RECEPTOR; WRIST; WRIST SPLINT; BODY POSTURE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INNERVATION; MOTONEURON; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NOTE; PARALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TENDON;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTRACTURE; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARALYSIS; POSTURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REFLEX, STRETCH; SELECTION BIAS; SPLINTS; TENDONS; WRIST;

EID: 34548289854     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.488031     Document Type: Letter

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