Repeated split-belt treadmill training improves poststroke step length asymmetry

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 460-468

  Reisman, Darcy S ^a,b   McLean, Heather ^b   Keller, Jennifer ^b   Danks, Kelly A ^a   Bastian, Amy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

gait; motor learning; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; SPLIT BELT TREADMILL; TREADMILL; WALKING; ADAPTATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; EXERCISE TEST; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; KINESIOTHERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STROKE; TIME FACTOR;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 84877303130     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968312474118     Document Type: Article

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