Changes in spastic muscle tone increase in patients with spinal cord injury using functional electrical stimulation and passive leg movements

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 627-634

  Krause, Phillip ^a   Szecsi, Johann ^a   Straube, Andreas ^a  

^a NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; CYCLING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE TONE; NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; SITTING; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VELOCITY;

ADULT; AGED; BICYCLING; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION THERAPY, CONTINUOUS PASSIVE; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 55249102170     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269215507084648     Document Type: Article

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