Reliability of the modified tardieu scale and the modified ashworth scale in adult patients with severe brain injury: A comparison study

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 751-759

  Mehrholz, Jan ^a   Wagner, Katja ^a   Meßiner, Daniel ^a   Grundmann, Kay ^a   Zange, Christian ^a   Koch, Rainer ^b   Pohl, Marcus ^a  

^a Klinik Bavaria in Kreischa GmbH   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELBOW; FEMALE; HIP; HUMAN; KNEE; MALE; MODIFIED ASHWORTH SCALE; MODIFIED TARDIUE SCALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; RATING SCALE; REHABILITATION CENTER; RELIABILITY; SHOULDER; SPASTICITY; WRIST;

BRAIN INJURIES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 27144440377     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269215505cr889oa     Document Type: Article

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