Impaired reactive stepping among patients ready for discharge from inpatient stroke rehabilitation

Physical Therapy

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1755-1764

  Inness, Elizabeth L ^a,b   Mansfield, Avril ^a,b,c,d   Lakhani, Bimal ^e   Bayley, Mark ^a,c,f   McIlroy, William E ^a,b,c,d,g  

^a TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c The HeartandStroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery   (Canada)

^d SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; FALLING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POSTURAL BALANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE;

EID: 84914163644     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20130603     Document Type: Article

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