Tetraplegia Hand Activity Questionnaire (THAQ): The development, assessment of arm-hand function-related activities in tetraplegic patients with a spinal cord injury

Spinal Cord

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 294-301

  Land, N E ^a   Odding, E ^a   Duivenvoorden, H J ^a   Bergen, M P ^b   Stam, H J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Erasmus MC University Medical Center and Rijndam Rehabilitation Center Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Activities; Arm hand function; Questionnaires; Spinal cord injury; Tetraplegia

Indexed keywords

ARM; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HAND; HAND FUNCTION; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEISURE; NETHERLANDS; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; REHABILITATION CENTER; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TETRAPLEGIA HAND ACTIVITY QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORK; CONVALESCENCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INNERVATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ARM; BELGIUM; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HAND; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUADRIPLEGIA; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3142560003     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3101588     Document Type: Article

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