Restoring symmetry: Clinical applications of cross-education

Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 70-75

  Farthing, Jonathan P ^a   Zehr, E Paul ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c Human Discovery Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

asymmetry; cross transfer; immobilization; stroke; therapy; wrist fracture

Indexed keywords

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONVALESCENCE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INJURY; LIMB; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RESISTANCE TRAINING; REVIEW;

EXTREMITIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESISTANCE TRAINING; STROKE;

EID: 84897116655     PISSN: 00916331     EISSN: 15383008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JES.0000000000000009     Document Type: Review

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