Biomechanical measurement of post-stroke spasticity

Age and Ageing

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 371-375

  Kumar, Raj T S ^a   Pandyan, Anand D ^b   Sharma, Anil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AINTREE   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular accident; Elderly; Measurement; Spasticity; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MODIFIED ASHWORTH SCALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANGE OF MOTION; RATING SCALE; SPASTICITY; STROKE; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY; VELOCITY;

AGED; BIOMECHANICS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33745422589     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afj084     Document Type: Article

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