Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 90, Issue 11 , Pages 1891-1897 , November 2009

Experienced Problems of Young Adults With Cerebral Palsy: Targets for Rehabilitation Care

  • Channah Nieuwenhuijsen, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Mireille Donkervoort, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Wilbert Nieuwstraten, MD

      Affiliations

    • Sophia Rehabilitation, The Hague, The Netherlands
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  • Henk J. Stam, MD, PhD, FRCP

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Marij E. Roebroeck, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Marij E. Roebroeck, MSc, Erasmus MC, Dept of Rehabilitation Medicine, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Transition Research Group South West Netherlands

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 Supported by the Kinder Fonds Adriaanstichting and Johanna Kinder Fonds (grant no. 2003/0047-063).

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

PII: S0003-9993(09)00643-1

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2009.06.014

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 90, Issue 11 , Pages 1891-1897 , November 2009

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