Break-technique handheld dynamometry: Relation between angular velocity and strength measurements

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1420-1426

  Burns, Stephen P ^a,b,c   Spanier, David E ^b  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Muscle spasticity; Rehabilitation; Reproducibility of results; Spinal cord injuries

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DYNAMOMETRY; ELBOW FLEXION; ELECTRICITY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GONIOMETRY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MICROCOMPUTER; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; QUADRIPLEGIA; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VELOCITY;

BIOMECHANICS; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; REHABILITATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 21344437280     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2004.12.041     Document Type: Article

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