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Luci F Teixeira-Salmela1, Verônica F Parreira, Raquel R Britto

  • 1Department of Physical Therapy, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil. jhsalmela@hotmail.com

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
|October 11, 2005
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