The EXCITE trial: Reacquiring upper-extremity task performance with early versus late delivery of constraint therapy

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 654-663

  Lang, Kimberly C ^a   Thompson, Paul A ^b   Wolf, Steven L ^a,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cerebrovascular accident; outcome; stroke; upper extremity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONSTRAINT INDUCED MOVEMENT THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOLF MOTOR FUNCTION TEST;

EID: 84880998265     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968313481281     Document Type: Article

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