Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 88, Issue 9 , Pages 1121-1126 , September 2007

The Stroke Upper-Limb Activity Monitor: Its Sensitivity to Measure Hemiplegic Upper-Limb Activity During Daily Life

  • Mark de Niet, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Johannes B. Bussmann, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Johannes B. Bussmann, PhD, Dept of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rm H-022, ’s Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Gerard M. Ribbers, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Rehabilitation Center Rijndam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
    • ,
  • Henk J. Stam, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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 Supported by Kinderfonds Adriaanstichting Rotterdam.

 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)00407-8

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.06.005

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 88, Issue 9 , Pages 1121-1126 , September 2007

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