Separate Quantification of Reflex and Nonreflex Components of Spastic Hypertonia in Chronic Hemiparesis

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 700-710

  Chung, Sun G ^a,b,e   van Rey, Elton ^a,b   Bai, Zhiqiang ^a,b   Rymer, W Zev ^a,b,c,d   Roth, Elliot J ^a,b   Zhang, Li Qun ^a,b,c  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Ankle; Contracture; Hemiplegia; Muscle spasticity; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPASM; MYOTATIC REFLEX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPASTICITY; TENDON REFLEX; VISCOELASTICITY;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANKLE JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PROBABILITY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE;

EID: 40949122410     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.09.051     Document Type: Article

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