Spinal mechanisms and feasibility of Dry Needling versus Botulinum Toxin Type A in post-stroke lower limb spasticity: A proof-of-concept randomized clinical trial protocol (STROKE-POC)

• Clara Pujol-Fuentes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Faculty of Health and Sciences, Department of Physiotherapy, Universidad Europea de Valencia‌‌, Valencia, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1736-3209

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• Bart Eeckhaut,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Software

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy‌‌, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2126-1782

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• Samuel Fernández Carnero,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Universidad de Alcalá, Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Departamento de Enfermería y Fisioterapia, Grupo de Investigación Fisioterapia y Dolor, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2893-1627

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• Daniel Fernández Sanchís,

  Roles Formal analysis, Conceptualization

  Affiliations Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad San Jorge, Villanueva de Gállego, Zaragoza, Spain

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• Theodore Wein,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Pablo Herrero ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pherrero@unizar.es

  Affiliations Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Physiotherapy, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9201-0120

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• Wim Saeys,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy‌‌, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8193-5016

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• Mindy F. Levin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations McGill University, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal (CRIR), Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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