Extracorporeal shock wave therapy for the treatment of poststroke plantar-flexor muscles spasticity: A prospective open-label study

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation

Volumn 21, Issue , 2014, Pages S17-S24

  Santamato, Andrea ^a   Micello, Maria Francesca ^a   Panza, Francesco ^b   Fortunato, Francesca ^a   Logroscino, Giancarlo ^b   Picelli, Alessandro ^c   Manganotti, Paolo ^d   Smania, Nicola ^c   Fiore, Pietro ^a   Ranieri, Maurizio ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Echo intensity; Extracorporal shock wave therapy; Heckmatt scale; plantar flexor muscles spasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE PAIN; LIMB WEAKNESS; LOWER LIMB; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MUSCLE TONE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OPEN STUDY; PES EQUINUS; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOCK WAVE THERAPY; SPASTICITY; ANKLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVULSIVE THERAPY; ECHO INTENSITY; EXTRACORPORAL SHOCK WAVE THERAPY; FOOT; HECKMATT SCALE; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; LEG; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLANTAR-FLEXOR MUSCLES SPASTICITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ECHO INTENSITY; EXTRACORPORAL SHOCK WAVE THERAPY; HECKMATT SCALE; PLANTAR-FLEXOR MUSCLES SPASTICITY;

ADULT; ANKLE; CONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84899727356     PISSN: 10749357     EISSN: 19455119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1310/tsr21S1-S17     Document Type: Article

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