Inter-examiner and intra-examiner reliability of the standing flexion test

Manual Therapy

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 87-93

  Vincent Smith, Ben ^a   Gibbons, Peter ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SACROILIAC JOINT; STANDARDIZATION; STANDING;

EID: 0032871012     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/math.1999.0173     Document Type: Article

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