Lower-extremity selective voluntary motor control in patients with spastic cerebral palsy: Increased distal motor impairment

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 264-269

  Fowler, Eileen G ^a   Staudt, Loretta A ^a   Greenberg, Marcia B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIPLEGIC CEREBRAL PALSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEMIPLEGIC CEREBRAL PALSY; HIP; HUMAN; KNEE; LEG; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIC CEREBRAL PALSY; SPASTIC CEREBRAL PALSY;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76349088063     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2009.03586.x     Document Type: Article

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