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Self-reported use of the paretic lower extremity of people with stroke: A reliability and validity study of the Lower-Extremity Motor Activity Log (LE-MAL) – Brazil

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Pages 1727-1735 | Received 18 Apr 2021, Accepted 03 Feb 2022, Published online: 23 Mar 2022

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