Reliability and validity of the BTE-Primus grip tool

Journal of Hand Therapy

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 36-42

  Shechtman, Orit ^a   Davenport, Rick ^b   Malcolm, Matthew ^a   Nabavi, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b North Florida Regional Medical Center   (United States)

^c Rinker Materials   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEVICE; DYNAMOMETRY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRIP STRENGTH; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATOR; SITTING; STANDING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0344643450     PISSN: 08941130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-1130(03)80022-4     Document Type: Article

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