Reliability of popliteal angle measurement: A study in cerebral palsy patients and healthy controls

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 648-652

  Ten Berge, Sabine R ^a,b   Halbertsma, Jan P K ^a,b   Maathuis, Patrick G M ^a   Verheij, Nienke P ^a,b   Dijkstra, Pieter U ^a,b   Maathuis, Karel G B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Center for Health Care Research   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; Goniometric measurement; Popliteal angle; Reliability; Visual estimation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GONIOMETRY; HUMAN; KNEE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; POPLITEAL ANLGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ARTHROMETRY, ARTICULAR; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRACTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34548167842     PISSN: 02716798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BPO.0b013e3180dca15d     Document Type: Article

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