Comparing tests of tactile sensibility: Aspects relevant to testing children with spastic hemiplegia

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 604-612

  Krumlinde Sundholm, Lena ^a   Eliasson, Ann Christin ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HAND; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SENSIBILITY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPASTICITY; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TOUCH;

EID: 0036729282     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001216220100264X     Document Type: Article

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