The Effect of Body Weight Support Treadmill Training on Gait Recovery, Proximal Lower Limb Motor Pattern, and Balance in Patients with Subacute Stroke

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Mao, Yu Rong ^a   Lo, Wai Leung ^a   Lin, Qiang ^a   Li, Le ^a   Xiao, Xiang ^a   Raghavan, Preeti ^b   Huang, Dong Feng ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RUSK Rehabilitation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY WEIGHT SUPPORTED TREADMILL TRAINING; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GAIT; HEMIPLEGIA; HIP; HUMAN; KNEE; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG LENGTH; LEG MOVEMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; RANGE OF MOTION; STROKE PATIENT; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VELOCITY; WALKING SPEED; AGED; BODY WEIGHT; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; KINESIOTHERAPY; LOWER LIMB; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STROKE; STROKE REHABILITATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

ADULT; AGED; BODY WEIGHT; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; STROKE REHABILITATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 84948823175     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/175719     Document Type: Article

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