Passive resistance of hamstring muscles in children with severe multiple disabilities?

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 541-544

  Holt, S ^b   Baagoe S ^b   Lillelund, F ^b   Magnusson, S P ^a  

^a BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISABILITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; KNEE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRETCHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; VELOCITY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DISABLED CHILDREN; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PLIABILITY;

EID: 0033855380     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001216220000102X     Document Type: Article

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