Functional electrical stimulation of ankle plantarflexor and dorsiflexor muscles: Effects on poststroke gait

Stroke

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3821-3827

  Kesar, Trisha M ^a   Perumal, Ramu ^a   Reisman, Darcy S ^a   Jancosko, Angela ^a   Rudolph, Katherine S ^a   Higginson, Jill S ^a   Binder Macleod, Stuart A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ankle plantarflexors; Functional electrical stimulation; Variable frequency trains

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ANKLE DORSIFLEXOR MUSCLE; ANKLE PLANTARFLEXOR MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; KNEE; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; STROKE; WALKING SPEED;

AGED; ANKLE JOINT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; KNEE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARESIS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 73449146254     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.560375     Document Type: Article

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