Determining consistency of elbow joint threshold angle in elbow flexor muscles with spastic hypertonia

Physical Therapy

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 586-600

  Wolf, Steven L ^b   Segal, Richard L ^b   Catlin, Pamela A ^b   Tschorn, Julie ^b   Raleigh, Tina ^b   Kontos, Heather ^b   Pate, Patricia ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Elbow; Joints; Muscle spasticity; Muscle tonus; Upper extremity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW FLEXION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIABILITY; SPASTICITY; STROKE; TORQUE;

EID: 0029893994     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/76.6.586     Document Type: Article

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