Management of Spasticity After Spinal Cord Injury: Current Techniques and Future Directions

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

• Publication date

  2010-01-01

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1177/1545968309343213PMID 19723923PMCID PMC2860542
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