Occurence and clinical predictors of spasticity after ischemic stroke

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2016-2020

  Urban, Peter P ^a   Wolf, Thomas ^b   Uebele, Michael ^b   Marx, Jürgen J ^b   Vogt, Thomas ^b   Stoeter, Peter ^b   Bauermann, Thomas ^b   Weibrich, Carsten ^b   Vucurevic, Goran D ^b   Schneider, Astrid ^b   Wissel, Jörg ^c  

^a ASKLEPIOS HOSPITAL BARMBEK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^c Neurological Rehabilitation Clinic Beelitz Heilstätten   (Germany)

Author keywords

epidemiology; rehabilitation; spasticity; stroke care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE TONE; PARESIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPASTICITY; ADOLESCENT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPLICATION; DISABILITY; HEALTH STATUS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE;

EID: 77956399021     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.581991     Document Type: Article

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