Novel patterns of functional electrical stimulation have an immediate effect on dorsiflexor muscle function during gait for people poststroke

Physical Therapy

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-66

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Magee Rehabilitation Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANKLE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; KNEE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STROKE;

AGED; ANKLE JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE;

EID: 74849104001     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20090140     Document Type: Article

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