The efficacy of electrical stimulation in reducing the post-stroke spasticity: A randomized controlled study

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 151-156

  Sahin, Nilay ^a   Ugurlu, Hatice ^a   Albayrak, Ilknur ^a  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

electrical stimulation; spasticity; stretching; stroke

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INNERVATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPASTICITY; STRETCHING EXERCISE; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRIST;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE STRETCHING EXERCISES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 82955217338     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2011.593679     Document Type: Article

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