Spasticity and muscle contracture following stroke
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Spasticity and muscle contracture following stroke.
It has become increasingly recognized that the major functional deficits following brain damage are largely due to "negative' features such as weakness and loss of dexterity rather than spasticity. A variety of studies suggest that spasticity is a distinct problem and separate from the loss of dexterity, but that it may be implicated in the formation of muscle contracture and even in the recove...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0006-8950,1460-2156
DOI: 10.1093/brain/119.5.1737