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Annicka Hedman1, Louise Nygård2, Anders Kottorp3

  • 1Annicka Hedman, PhD, OT Reg, is Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Occupational Therapy, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Division of Occupational Therapy, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden; annicka.hedman@ki.se.

The American Journal of Occupational Therapy : Official Publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association
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