The intra-rater reliability of the balance performance monitor when measuring sitting symmetry and weight-shift activity after stroke in a community setting

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 746-750

  Sackley, Cath M ^a   Hill, Helen J ^a   Pound, Kate ^b   Foxall, Andy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MONITOR; RELIABILITY; SITTING; STROKE; WEIGHT BEARING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 27144460856     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269215505cr863oa     Document Type: Article

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