Contributions of voluntary activation deficits to hand weakness after stroke

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 384-392

  Hoffmann, Gilles ^a   Conrad, Megan O ^a   Qiu, Dan ^b   Kamper, Derek G ^a,b  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Fingers; Muscle activation; Stroke; Weakness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE FINGER; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE PATIENT; STROKE SURVIVOR; WEAKNESS; AGED; COMPLICATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FINGER; PARESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARESIS; STROKE;

EID: 85009783099     PISSN: 10749357     EISSN: 19455119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1945511915Y.0000000023     Document Type: Article

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