No specific effect of whole-body vibration training in chronic stroke: A double-blind randomized controlled study

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 253-258

  Brogrdh, Christina ^a,b   Flansbjer, Ulla Britt ^a,b   Lexell, Jan ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gait; Muscle; Outcome Assessment (health care); Rehabilitation; Skeletal; Stroke; Vibration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYNAMOMETER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GAIT; HUMAN; ISOKINETIC EXERCISE; ISOMETRICS; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TONE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STROKE; WALKING; WHOLE BODY VIBRATION;

DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TONUS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; STROKE; VIBRATION;

EID: 84856389944     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: 1532821X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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