A functional threshold for long-term use of hand and arm function can be determined: Predictions from a computational model and supporting data from the Extremity Constraint-Induced Therapy Evaluation (EXCITE) trial

Physical Therapy

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1327-1336

  Schweighofer, Nicolas ^a   Han, Cheol E ^b   Wolf, Steven L ^c,d,e   Arbib, Michael A ^b   Winstein, Carolee J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Center for Rehabilitation Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VA Rehabilitation R and D Center   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT INDUCED THERAPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HAND FUNCTION; MOVEMENT THERAPY;

CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXERCISE THERAPY; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSCLE STRENGTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STROKE; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 72849124510     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20080402     Document Type: Article

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