Joint hypermobility: The use of a new assessment tool to measure lower limb hypermobility

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 413-420

  Ferrari, Jill ^a   Parslow, Charlotte ^a   Lim, Emma ^b   Hayward, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Hypermobility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GAIT; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; JOINT HYPERMOBILITY; JOINT MOBILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RHEUMATOLOGY; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 20444506807     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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