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ARAT (Action Research Arm Test), BI (Barthel Index), NMES (neuromuscular electrical stimulation), sNMES (surface neuromuscular electrical stimulation)Purchase one-time access:
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Rosewilliam is now at the School of Health and Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, and Malhotra is now at the Department of Emergency Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center and Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, NY.
Funded by Action Medical Research and Barnwood House Trust (AP0993).
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.
Clinical Trial Registration No.: ISRCTN34651260.
In-press corrected proof published online on Jul 25, 2012, at www.archives-pmr.org.