Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 81, Issue 6 , Pages 747-751 , June 2000

Respiratory muscle weakness and respiratory muscle training in severely disabled multiple sclerosis patients

Received 6 July 1999 ,Accepted 18 November 1999.

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☆1 Supported by the Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek–Vlaanderen, grant P. 0188.97.

☆2 No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the authors or upon any organization with which the authors are associated.

☆3 Reprint requests to Rik Gosselink, PhD, Professor of Respiratory Rehabilitation, Division of Respiratory Rehabilitation, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven Belgium.

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doi: 10.1016/S0003-9993(00)90105-9

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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