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Robot-assisted and traditional intensive rehabilitation therapy in the treatment of post-acute stroke patient: the experience of a standard rehabilitation ward

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge the Department of Neurosciences, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetic and Maternal Infantile Sciences (DINOGMI), MIUR Department of Excellence, for general support to the present work and Prof. Gianluigi Mancardi for critically revising the manuscript. We also thank Sestri Levante Hospital—S.C. Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, ASL4, Liguria, Italy, for valuable collaboration on this article. The authors acknowledge Alexander Salerno for language editing.

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  1. Mehrnaz Hamedani and Valeria Prada contributed equally.

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  1. Department of Neurosciences, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics and Maternal/Child Sciences, University of Genoa, Largo Paolo Daneo 3, 16132, Genova, GE, Italy

    Mehrnaz Hamedani, Valeria Prada, Valeria Leoni & Angelo Schenone

  2. S.C. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of Sestri Levante, ASL 4, Liguria, Italy

    Paola Tognetti

  3. IRCCS San Martino, Genoa, Italy

    Angelo Schenone

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MH and author VP have given substantial contributions to the conception and data interpretation of the manuscript. PT provided clinical support, and VL and AS contributed to the scientific revision of the manuscript. All authors have participated to drafting the manuscript, and author AS revised it critically. The authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Hamedani, M., Prada, V., Tognetti, P. et al. Robot-assisted and traditional intensive rehabilitation therapy in the treatment of post-acute stroke patient: the experience of a standard rehabilitation ward. Neurol Sci 43, 3999–4001 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-022-06041-8

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