Motor imagery training in hemiplegic cerebral palsy: A potentially useful therapeutic tool for rehabilitation

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 690-696

  Steenbergen, Bert ^a   Crajé, Céline ^a   Nilsen, Dawn M ^b   Gordon, Andrew M ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD CARE; GUIDED IMAGERY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MOTOR IMAGERY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PEDIATRIC PHYSIOTHERAPY; PEDIATRIC REHABILITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MOTOR ACTIVITY;

EID: 68649121636     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2009.03371.x     Document Type: Review

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