Muscle length effect on the pendulum test

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 169-171

  Fowler, Virginia ^a   Canning, Colleen G ^a   Carr, Janet H ^a   Shepherd, Roberta B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG MOVEMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE LENGTH; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; SPASTICITY; STROKE; WALKING;

EID: 0031906694     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9993(98)90294-5     Document Type: Article

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