Botulinum toxin injection into the forearm muscles for wrist and fingers spastic overactivity in adults with chronic stroke: A randomized controlled trial comparing three injection techniques

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 232-242

  Picelli, Alessandro ^a,b   Lobba, Davide ^a   Midiri, Alessandro ^a   Prandi, Paolo ^a   Melotti, Camilla ^a   Baldessarelli, Silvia ^a   Smania, Nicola ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

forearm; hand; muscle hypertonia; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FINGER; FOREARM; HAND; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ITALY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REHABILITATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPASTICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

FOREARM; HAND; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; REHABILITATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BOTULINUM TOXINS, TYPE A; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOREARM; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR AGENTS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894482843     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: 14770873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269215513497735     Document Type: Article

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