Immediate effects of electrical stimulation combined with passive locomotion-like movement on gait velocity and spasticity in persons with hemiparetic stroke: A randomized controlled study

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 619-628

  Yamaguchi, Tomofumi ^a   Tanabe, Shigeo ^b   Muraoka, Yoshihiro ^c   Masakado, Yoshihisa ^d   Kimura, Akio ^e   Tsuji, Tetsuya ^a   Liu, Meigen ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Rehabilitation Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARESIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPASTICITY;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; PARESIS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STROKE;

EID: 84862301346     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: 14770873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269215511426803     Document Type: Article

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