Gait characteristics of children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy before and after modified constraint-induced movement therapy

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 402-408

  Coker, Patricia ^a   Karakostas, Tasos ^a   Dodds, Cindy ^a   Hsiang, Simon ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; Constraint therapy; Gait; Hemiplegia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; WALKING;

CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MALE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; WALKING;

EID: 76149122142     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638280903171592     Document Type: Article

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