Cryotherapy reduces muscle hypertonia, but does not affect lower limb strength or gait kinematics post-stroke: a randomized controlled crossover study.
Carolina Carmona AlcantaraJulia BlancoLucilene Maria De OliveiraPaula Fernanda Sávio RibeiroEsperanza HerreraTheresa Helissa NakagawaDarcy S ReismanStella Maris MichaelsenLuccas Cavalcanti GarciaThiago Luiz RussoPublished in: Topics in stroke rehabilitation (2019)
The findings of this study suggest that cryotherapy applied to the calf muscles of subjects with chronic hemiparesis reduces muscle hypertonia but does not improve dorsiflexors and plantarflexors performance and gait parameters.
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