Falls efficacy among stroke survivors living in the community
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Falls in community-dwelling stroke survivors: an accumulated impairments model.
UNLABELLED Falling has been identified as a major complication in persons who have had a stroke. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of accumulated impairments on the risk of falling in community-dwelling stroke survivors. METHODS Community-dwelling stroke survivors were identified from the Kansas City Stroke Study, a large cohort study of stroke survivors. We evaluated th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Disability and Rehabilitation
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0963-8288,1464-5165
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2010.546938