Stroke rehabilitation: Clinical picture, assessment, and therapeutic challenge

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 218, Issue , 2015, Pages 253-280

  Richards, Carol L ^a,b,c   Malouin, Francine ^a,b,c   Nadeau, Sylvie ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DE RÉADAPTATION EN DÉFICIENCE PHYSIQUE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c CANADIAN INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e Rehabilitation Institute of Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

best practice recommendations; outcome measures; recovery; rehabilitation; stroke

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY REINTEGRATION; CONVALESCENCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY ASSESSMENT; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FOLLOW UP; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; REHABILITATION RESEARCH; SECONDARY PREVENTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; BRAIN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; STROKE REHABILITATION; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE REHABILITATION; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84955405481     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2015.01.003     Document Type: Chapter

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