A randomized controlled trial of surface neuromuscular electrical stimulation applied early after acute stroke: Effects on wrist pain, spasticity and contractures

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 579-590

  Malhotra, Shweta ^a,b   Rosewilliam, Sheeba ^a,c   Hermens, Hermie ^d   Roffe, Christine ^a,e   Jones, Peter ^a   Pandyan, Anand David ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d ROESSINGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

contractures; neuromuscular electric stimulation; pain; spasticity; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; COMPLICATION; CONTRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STROKE; TIME TO TREATMENT; VERY ELDERLY; WRIST; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; METHODOLOGY; NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; SPASTICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRACTURE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; WRIST JOINT;

CONTRACTURES; NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRIC STIMULATION; PAIN; SPASTICITY; STROKE;

EID: 84879468106     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: 14770873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269215512464502     Document Type: Article

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