Home-based nerve stimulation to enhance effects of motor training in patients in the chronic phase after stroke: A proof-of-principle study

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 483-490

  Dos Santos Fontes, Renata Laurenti ^a   Ferreiro De Andrade, Karina Nocelo ^a   Sterr, Annette ^b   Conforto, Adriana Bastos ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein   (Brazil)

Author keywords

hemiparesis; motor activity; peripheral nerve stimulation therapy; physical therapy; stroke rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE SAFETY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL TRAINING; HAND FUNCTION; HEMIPARESIS; HOME; HUMAN; JEBSEN TAYLOR TEST; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NERVE STIMULATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAFETY; SELF CONCEPT; STROKE PATIENT;

HEMIPARESIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERIPHERAL NERVE STIMULATION THERAPY; PHYSICAL THERAPY; STROKE REHABILITATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPHYSICS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; UPPER EXTREMITY; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878848709     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968313478488     Document Type: Article

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