Biomechanical examination of a commonly used measure of spasticity

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 859-865

  Pandyan, A D ^a   Price, C I M ^b   Rodgers, H ^a   Barnes, M P ^a   Johnson, G R ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; HUMAN REHABILITATION ENGINEERING; JOINTS (ANATOMY); NEUROLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANTISPASTICITY;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE TONE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SPASTICITY; STANDARDIZATION; STROKE; TECHNIQUE; VELOCITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELBOW JOINT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; PARALYSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROBABILITY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0035181532     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0033(01)00084-5     Document Type: Article

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