What change in isokinetic knee muscle strength can be detected in men and women with hemiparesis after stroke?

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 514-522

  Flansbjer, Ulla Britt ^a,b   Holmbäck, Anna Maria ^a   Downham, David ^c   Lexell, Jan ^a,b,d,e  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Health Sciences ^*  (Sweden)

^e University of Technology   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DYNAMOMETRY; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; TORQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING; WALKING AID;

AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; KNEE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; SWEDEN;

EID: 23644433188     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269215505cr854oa     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Patten C, Lexell J, Brown HE. Weakness and strength training in persons with post-stroke hemiplegia: Rationale, method and efficacy. J Rehabil Res Dev 2004; 41: 293-312.
2. Morris SL, Dodd KJ, Morris ME. Outcomes of progressive resistance strength training following stroke: a systematic review. Clin Rehabil 2004; 18: 27-39.
3. Rothstein JM. Measurement and clinical practice: Theory and application. In: Rothstein JM ed. Measurement in physical therapy. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1985: 1-46.
4. Atkinson G, Nevill AM. Statistical methods for assessing measurement error (reliability) in variables relevant to sports medicine. Sports Med 1998; 26: 217-38.
5. Bland JM, Altman DG. Measuring agreement in method comparison studies. Stat Methods Med Res 1999; 8: 135-60.
6. Flansbjer U-B, Holmbäck AM, Downham D, Patten C, Lexell J. Reliability of gait performance tests in men and women with hemiparesis after stroke. J Rehabil Med 2005; 37: 75-82.
7. Holmbäck AM, Porter MM, Downham D, Lexell J. Reliability of isokinetic ankle dorsiflexor strength measurements in healthy young men and women. Scand J Rehabil Med 1999; 31: 229-39.
8. Holmbäck AM, Porter MM, Downham D, Lexell J. Ankle dorsiflexor muscle performance in healthy young men and women: reliability of eccentric peak torque and work measurements. J Rehabil Med 2001; 33: 90-96.
9. Hopkins WG. Measures of reliability in sports medicine and science. Sports Med 2000; 30: 1-15.
10. Rankin G, Stokes M. Reliability of assessment tools in rehabilitation: an illustration of appropriate statistical analyses. Clin Rehabil 1998; 12: 187-99.
11. Dvir Z. Isokinetics: muscle testing, interpretation, and clinical application. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1995.
12. Eng JJ, Kim CM, Macintyre DL. Reliability of lower extremity strength measures in persons with chronic stroke. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2002; 83: 322-28.
13. Hsu AL, Tang PF, Jan MH. Test-retest reliability of isokinetic muscle strength of the lower extremities in patients with stroke. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2002; 83: 1130-37.
14. Pohl PS, Startzell JK, Duncan PW, Wallace D. Reliability of lower extremity isokinetic strength testing in adults with stroke. Clin Rehabil 2000; 14: 601-607.
15. Tripp EJ, Harris SR. Test-retest reliability of isokinetic knee extension and flexion torque measurements in persons with spastic hemiparesis. Phys Ther 1991; 71: 390-96.
16. SM (Swedish version 5.0). State University of New York at Buffalo, 1996.
17. Blackburn M, van Vliet P, Mockett SP. Reliability of measurements obtained with the Modified Ashworth Scale in the lower extremities of people with stroke. Phys Ther 2002; 82: 25-34.
18. Shrout PE, Fleiss JL. Intraclass correlations: Uses in assessing rater reliability. Psychol Bull 1979; 86: 420-28.
19. Bland M. An introduction to medical statistics, third edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
20. Beckerman H, Roebroeck ME, Lankhorst GJ, Becher JG, Bezemer PD, Verbeek AL. Smallest real difference, a link between reproducibility and responsiveness. Qual Life Res 2001; 10: 571-78.
21. Fleiss JL. The design and analysis of clinical experiments. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1986.
22. Li RC, Wu Y, Maffulli N, Chan KM, Chan JL. Eccentric and concentric isokinetic knee flexion and extension: a reliability study using the Cybex 6000 dynamometer. Br J Sports Med 1996; 30: 156-60.
23. Pincivero DM, Lephart SM, Karunakara RA. Reliability and precision of isokinetic strength and muscular endurance for the quadriceps and hamstrings. Int J Sports Med 1997; 18: 113-17.
24. Steiner LA, Harris BA, Krebs DE. Reliability of eccentric isokinetic knee flexion and extension measurements. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1993; 74: 1327-35.
25. Knutsson E, Martensson A, Gransberg L. Influences of muscle stretch reflexes on voluntary, velocity-controlled movements in spastic paraparesis. Brain 1997; 120: 1621-33.