Stroke rehabilitation: Recent advances and future therapies

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 11-25

  Brewer, L ^a   Horgan, F ^a   Hickey, A ^a   Williams, D ^a  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADIPONECTIN; AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; AMPHETAMINE; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; D DIMER; DOPAMINE; FLUOXETINE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LEVODOPA; METHYLPHENIDATE; PROTEIN S100B; REBOXETINE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TROPONIN T; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ABDUCTION; AGNOSIA; ALERTNESS; APHASIA; APRAXIA; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONSTRAINT INDUCED APHASIA THERAPY; CONSTRAINT INDUCED MOVEMENT THERAPY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHASIA; DYSPHONIA; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAIT DISORDER; GRIP STRENGTH; HEMIPARESIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MEMORY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MIRROR THERAPY; MOOD CHANGE; MOOD DISORDER; MOTIVATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE TONE; NEGLECT; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESIS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPRIOCEPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RANKIN SCALE; REHABILITATION; RESISTANCE TRAINING; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH THERAPY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STROKE PATIENT; TEMPERAMENT; THERAPY; THROMBOSIS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84871578644     PISSN: 14602725     EISSN: 14602393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcs174     Document Type: Review

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