Virtual reality reflection therapy improves balance and gait in patients with chronic stroke: Randomized controlled trials

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 22, Issue , 2016, Pages 4046-4053

  In, Taesung ^a   Lee, Kyeongjin ^a   Song, Changho ^a  

^a Sahmyook University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gait; Mirror neurons; Postural balance; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ADDUCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BALANCE DISORDER; BERG BALANCE SCALE; BRUNNSTROM SCORE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; DORSIFLEXION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL REACHING TEST; GAIT DISORDER; GALVANIC VESTIBULAR TEST; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PLANTAR FLEXION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPEECH THERAPY; TIMED UP AND GO TEST; VIRTUAL REALITY REFLECTION THERAPY; WALKING SPEED; AGED; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CHRONIC DISEASE; GAIT; KINESIOTHERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STROKE REHABILITATION; VIRTUAL REALITY EXPOSURE THERAPY; WALKING;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; POSTURAL BALANCE; STROKE; STROKE REHABILITATION; VIRTUAL REALITY EXPOSURE THERAPY; WALKING;

EID: 84994607093     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/MSM.898157     Document Type: Article

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