The effect of visual scanning exercises integrated into physiotherapy in patients with unilateral spatial neglect poststroke: A matched-pair randomized control trial

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 856-873

  Van Wyk, Andoret ^a   Eksteen, Carina A ^a   Rheeder, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

physiotherapy; rehabilitation; stroke; unilateral spatial neglect; vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; KING DEVICK TEST; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; STAR CANCELLATION TEST; STROKE PATIENT; UNILATERAL SPATIAL NEGLECT; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL SCANNING EXERCISE; ADULT; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DISABILITY; EYE MOVEMENT; FOLLOW UP; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; KINESIOTHERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL BIAS; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXERCISE THERAPY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908642158     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968314526306     Document Type: Article

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