Test-retest strength reliability: Hand-held dynamometry in community-dwelling elderly fallers

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 811-815

  Wang, Ching Yi ^a   Olson, Sharon L ^a   Protas, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Rehabilitation; Reproducibility of results; Strength

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DYNAMOMETRY; FALLING; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; RELIABILITY;

EID: 0036290389     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/apmr.2002.32743     Document Type: Article

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