Investigation of transabdominal real-time ultrasound to visualise the muscles of the pelvic floor

Australian Journal of Physiotherapy

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 167-170

  Sherburn, Margaret ^a   Murphy, Claire A ^a   Carroll, Sara ^b   Allen, Trevor J ^c   Galea, Mary P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Pelvic floor muscles; Real time ultrasound; Reliability; Transabdominal ultrasound; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER WALL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PALPATION; PELVIS FLOOR; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 24644461710     PISSN: 00049514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0004-9514(05)70023-4     Document Type: Article

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