The effect of EMG triggered electrical stimulation plus task practice on arm function in chronic stroke patients with moderate-severe arm deficits

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 681-691

  Singer, Barbara J ^a   Vallenceb, Ann Maree ^a   Cleary, Sarah ^b   Cooper, Ian ^b   Loftusb, Andrea M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

bilateral training; electrical stimulation; interhemispheric inhibition; Stroke; upper limb

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARM DISEASE; ARM MOTOR ABILITY TEST; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FUGL MEYER UPPER EXTREMITY SUBSCALE; HAND DISEASE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMIPLEGIA; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE PATIENT; SURVIVOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BILATERAL TRAINING; ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; INTERHEMISPHERIC INHIBITION; STROKE; UPPER LIMB;

AGED; ARM; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY; WRIST;

EID: 84892775129     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-130319     Document Type: Article

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