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Marco Paoloni1, Emanuela Tavernese2, Massimo Fini3

  • 1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Sapienza - University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Neurorehabilitation
|September 18, 2014
PubMed
Abstract

Keywords:
Strokeelectromyographyreaching movementrehabilitationvibration therapy

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