Rapid and long-term adaptations in gait symmetry following unilateral step training in people with hemiparesis

Physical Therapy

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 474-483

  Kahn, Jennifer H ^a   George Hornby, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; THERAPY EFFECT; TRAINING; TREADMILL EXERCISE; TREATMENT DURATION; WALKING SPEED; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARESIS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; POSTURAL BALANCE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65549128521     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20080237     Document Type: Article

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