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Original Research

Every person is an individual: physical therapist clinical reasoning used in inpatient rehabilitation for walking assistive device prescription in patients with stroke and brain injury

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Pages 1-8 | Received 10 May 2019, Accepted 21 Jul 2019, Published online: 20 Aug 2019

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