Psychomotor speed in chronic low-back pain patients and healthy controls: Construct validity and clinical significance of the measure

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 87, Issue PART 3 SPEC. ISS., 1998, Pages 1283-1296

  Luoto, Satu ^a  

^a Kuntoutus ORTON   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEG; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ARM; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0032233937     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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