Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 88, Issue 2 , Pages 218-227 , February 2007

Recovery of Standing Balance and Health-Related Quality of Life After Mild or Moderately Severe Stroke

Preliminary data presented to the World Congress in Physical Therapy, June 3, 2003, Barcelona, Spain.

  • S. Jayne Garland, PhD

      Affiliations

    • School of Physical Therapy, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
    • Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to S. Jayne Garland, PhD, Sch of Physical Therapy, Elborn College, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6G 1H1, Canada.
    • ,
  • Tanya D. Ivanova, PhD

      Affiliations

    • School of Physical Therapy, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
    • ,
  • George Mochizuki, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada.

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 Supported by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario (grant nos. NA4838, T5131) and the Canadian Stroke Network.

 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 author(s) or upon any organization with which the author(s) is/are associated.

PII: S0003-9993(06)01531-0

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2006.11.023

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 88, Issue 2 , Pages 218-227 , February 2007

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