Constraint-induced therapy with trunk restraint for improving functional outcomes and trunk-arm control after stroke: A randomized controlled trial

Physical Therapy

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 483-492

  Wu, Ching Yi ^a   Chen, Yi An ^a   Lin, Keh Chung ^b,c   Chao, Ching Ping ^b   Chen, Yu Ting ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INNERVATION; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84859202814     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20110213     Document Type: Article

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