Exercises for paretic upper limb after stroke: A combined virtual-reality and telemedicine approach
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Exercises for paretic upper limb after stroke: a combined virtual-reality and telemedicine approach.
OBJECTIVE Telerehabilitation enables a remotely controlled programme to be used to treat motor deficits in post-stroke patients. The effects of this telerehabilitation approach were compared with traditional motor rehabilitation methods. DESIGN Randomized single-blind controlled trial. PATIENTS A total of 36 patients with mild arm motor impairments due to ischaemic stroke in the region of t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1650-1977
DOI: 10.2340/16501977-0459