Portable upper extremity robotics is as efficacious as upper extremity rehabilitative therapy: A randomized controlled pilot trial

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 494-503

  Page, Stephen J ^a   Hill, Valerie ^b   White, Susan ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

hemiplegia; Rehabilitation; rehabilitation; stroke

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARM; BRACE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PILOT STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROBOTICS; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EQUIPMENT; HEMIPLEGIA; REHABILITATION;

AGED; BRACES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; PILOT PROJECTS; ROBOTICS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

HEMIPLEGIA; REHABILITATION; STROKE;

EID: 84878022605     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: 14770873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269215512464795     Document Type: Article

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