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Research Article

Frustrated and invisible--younger stroke patients' experiences of the rehabilitation process

JENNY RÖDING Department of Health Science, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
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BRITTA LINDSTRÖM Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Umeå University, Sweden
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JAN MALM Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Umeå University, Sweden
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ANN ÖHMAN Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Umeå University, Sweden
Pages 867-874 | Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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