Digital goniometric measurement of knee joint motion. Evaluation of usefulness for research settings and clinical practice

Knee

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 385-389

  Cleffken, Berry ^a   van Breukelen, Gerard ^b   Brink, Peter ^a   van Mameren, Henk ^b   Damink, Steven Olde ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bland and Altman; Goniometry; Knee; Range of motion; Reproducibility; Research reference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GONIOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; KNEE; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; ARTHROMETRY, ARTICULAR; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MOVEMENT; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34548399709     PISSN: 09680160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knee.2007.07.004     Document Type: Article

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