Electrophysiological and clinical assessment of a simple wrist-hand splint for patients with chronic spastic hemiparesis secondary to stroke

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 423-429

  Fujiwara, Toshiyuki ^a   Liu, M ^a   Hase, K ^a   Tanaka, N ^a   Hara, Y ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL CHIBA HOKUSOH HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electromyography; H reflex; Hemiplegia; Spasticity; Splint

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FINGER; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HAND; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; HEMIPARESIS; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT FUNCTION; LONG TERM CARE; MATERIALS; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; NERVE STIMULATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; SHOULDER; SPLINTING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; WAVEFORM; WRIST;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARAPARESIS, SPASTIC; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPLINTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRIST;

EID: 7444245023     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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