Reliability and Agreement of 5 Ergo-Kit Functional Capacity Evaluation Lifting Tests in Subjects With Low Back Pain

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1365-1370

  Gouttebarge, Vincent ^a   Wind, Haije ^a   Kuijer, P Paul ^a   Sluiter, Judith K ^a   Frings Dresen, Monique H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disability evaluation; Low back pain; Rehabilitation; Reliability and validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DYNAMIC EXERCISE; ERGOMETER; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; LIFTING EFFORT; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NETHERLANDS; REPEAT PROCEDURE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WEIGHT LIFTING;

ADULT; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LIFTING; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33749134220     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2006.05.028     Document Type: Article

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