Strategies for stroke rehabilitation

Lancet Neurology

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 528-536

  Dobkin, Bruce H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; AMPHETAMINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BOTULINUM TOXIN; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LEVODOPA; LORAZEPAM; METHYLPHENIDATE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ACCURACY; DEVICE; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MYOPATHY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPASTICITY; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VELOCITY; ARM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REHABILITATION; WALKING;

ARM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; REHABILITATION; WALKING;

EID: 4644327679     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(04)00851-8     Document Type: Review

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