Assessment of reliability of the hand-held dynamometer for measuring strength in healthy older adults

Physiotherapy Theory and Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-54

  Richardson, Julie ^a,b   Stratford, Paul ^b   Cripps, Donna ^a  

^a St Peter's Hospital   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETRY; ELBOW; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY;

EID: 0031970931     PISSN: 09593985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09593989809070043     Document Type: Article

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