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The importance of selective trunk activity in the rehabilitation of the hemiplegic patient, has, I believe, been grossly underestimated. The loss, often total, of such selective activity has not even been fully realised. Reading through recent literature on the subject of hemiplegia, I found only scant reference to the trunk muscles in a very small percentage of them, and nothing at all about their selective activity.
So on we go His welfare is my concern No burden is he to bear we’ll get there ...
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Davies, P.M. (1990). Introduction. In: Right in the Middle. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61502-3_1
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