Quantification of rigidity in Parkinson's disease

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2196-2203

  Sepehri, Behrooz ^a,b   Esteki, Ali ^c   Ebrahimi Takamjani, Esmaeal ^d   Shahidi, Golam Ali ^e   Khamseh, Fatemeh ^f   Moinodin, Marzieh ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Elastic; Measurement; Objective; Parkinson's disease; Stiffness; Viscous

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPUTATION THEORY; MUSCLE; PATIENT MONITORING; STATISTICAL METHODS; VISCOELASTICITY;

PARKINSON DISEASES; PARKINSONIAN PATIENTS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENTS;

DISEASES;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELASTICITY; ELBOW; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

ADULT; AGED; BIOMECHANICS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELASTICITY; ELBOW JOINT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 36448937820     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-007-9379-6     Document Type: Article

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