The wheelchair circuit: Construct validity and responsiveness of a test to assess manual wheelchair mobility in persons with spinal cord injury

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 424-431

  Kilkens, Olga J ^a   Dallmeijer, Annet J ^b   De Witte, Luc P ^a   Van Der Woude, Lucas H ^b   Post, Marcel W ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR REHABILITATION RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Rehabilitation; Spinal cord injuries; Validity of results; Wheelchairs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT MOBILITY; PHYSICAL STRESS; SKILL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WHEELCHAIR; ADOLESCENT; AGE; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PARAPLEGIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUADRIPLEGIA; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PARAPLEGIA; QUADRIPLEGIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 1842613656     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2003.05.006     Document Type: Article

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