Training rapid stepping responses in an individual with stroke

Physical Therapy

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 958-969

  Mansfield, Avril ^a   Inness, Elizabeth L ^b   Komar, Janice ^a   Biasin, Louis ^a   Brunton, Karen ^b   Lakhani, Bimal ^b   Mcilroy, William E ^c,d  

^a TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; FALLING; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REACTION TIME; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT BEARING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; POSTURAL BALANCE; REACTION TIME; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 80051571663     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20100212     Document Type: Article

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