Rehabilitative therapy in arm paresis after stroke;Rehabilitative therapie bei armparese nach schlaganfall

Neurologie und Rehabilitation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 81-106

  Platz, Th ^a   Roschka, S ^a  

^a BDH Klinik   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBIDOPA; DEXAMPHETAMINE; LEVODOPA;

ACUPUNCTURE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTRAINT INDUCED THERAPY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MAGNETOTHERAPY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT THERAPY; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PARESIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STROKE;

EID: 67649363863     PISSN: 09472177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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