Feasibility and outcomes of a community-based, pedometer-monitored walking program in chronic stroke: A pilot study

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 101-110

  Sullivan, Jane ^a   Espe, Lauren ^a   Kelly, Amanda ^a   Veilbig, Laura ^a   Kwasny, Mary ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

pedometers; stroke

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITIES SPECIFIC BALANCE CONFIDENCE SCALE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC STROKE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY BASED REHABILITATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT; HUMAN; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PEDOMETER; PEDOMETER SATISFACTION SURVEY; PILOT STUDY; PRETEST POSTTEST DESIGN; PROGRAM FEASIBILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; STROKE IMPACT SCALE 16; VELOCITY; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING; WALKING DISTANCE; WALKING SPEED;

PEDOMETERS; STROKE;

ACTIGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT PROJECTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 84898467340     PISSN: 10749357     EISSN: 19455119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1310/tsr2102-101     Document Type: Article

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