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Zuzana Hirjaková1, Kateřina Neumannová2, Jana Kimijanová1

  • 1Institute of Normal and Pathological Physiology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Sienkiewiczova 1, 813 71 Bratislava, Slovakia.

Neuroscience Letters
|May 1, 2017
PubMed

Keywords:
AccelerometryBreathingPostureSpirometryVisual biofeedback

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