Measuring Muscle Strength for People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Retest Reliability of Hand-Held Dynamometry

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 32-36

  O'Shea, Simone D ^a,b   Taylor, Nicholas F ^b   Paratz, Jennifer D ^c  

^a Wodonga Regional Health Service   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Muscles; Pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive; Rehabilitation; Reliability and validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYNAMOMETRY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MONITORING; MUSCLE STRENGTH; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HIP; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRENGTH DYNAMOMETER; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SAMPLE SIZE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOULDER;

EID: 33845892103     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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