Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 88, Issue 8 , Pages 1022-1029 , August 2007

Variation of Muscle Coactivation Patterns in Chronic Stroke During Robot-Assisted Elbow Training

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 Supported by the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (grant no. PolyU 5271/05E) and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (grant nos. G-U056, G-YX65).

 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(07)00349-8

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.05.006

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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