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SL Wolf, PhD, PT, FAPTA, is Professor and Director of Research, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine; Professor, Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine; and Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, 1441 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30322

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Physical therapists continue to pursue their interests in movement control with increasing regularity and persistence. One such example of applying a very basic movement paradigm to patients with stroke has been presented by Dickstein and colleagues. They are to be commended on making an important contribution to our literature. Although slowing of total limb or joint segmental movements in a hemiparetic upper extremity is intuitively obvious, the delays clearly quantified in reaction time (RT) and movement time (MT) now provide objective verification for movement delays that clinicians have recognized for many decades. Specifically, the authors conclude from the analysis of their data that increasing RT during bilateral elbow flexion may reflect additional central processing times necessary for simultaneous movements to be initiated rather than specific events related to hemiparesis itself....

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