Baseline Severity of Upper Limb Hemiparesis Influences the Outcome of Low-Frequency rTMS Combined With Intensive Occupational Therapy in Patients Who Have Had a Stroke

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Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 516-522

  Kakuda, Wataru ^a   Abo, Masahiro ^a   Kobayashi, Kazushige ^a   Takagishi, Toshimitsu ^a   Momosaki, Ryo ^a   Yokoi, Aki ^a   Fukuda, Akiko ^a   Ito, Hiroshi ^a   Tominaga, Ayumi ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PARESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958752034     PISSN: 19341482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2011.02.015     Document Type: Article

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