An evaluation of the wolf motor function test in motor trials early after stroke

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 660-668

  Edwards, Dorothy F ^a   Lang, Catherine E ^a,b,c   Wagner, Joanne M ^d   Birkenmeier, Rebecca ^a   Dromerick, Alexander W ^a,b,e,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Physical Therapy   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Doisy College of Health Sciences   (United States)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Outcome assessment (health care); Paresis; Rehabilitation; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ACTION RESEARCH ARM TEST; ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSTRAINT INDUCED MOVEMENT THERAPY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTION TEST; FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE MEASURE; HAND GRIP; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT THERAPY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WOLF MOTOR FUNCTION TEST;

DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84859214034     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: 1532821X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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