The reliability of musculoskeletal screening tests used in cricket

Physical Therapy in Sport

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-33

  Dennis, Rebecca J ^a,b   Finch, Caroline F ^a,b   Elliott, Bruce C ^c   Farhart, Patrick J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d Cricket NSW   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cricket; Fast bowler; Intraclass correlation coefficient; Musculoskeletal; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FOOT; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; KNEE FUNCTION; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SPORT INJURY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VOLUNTEER;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; AUSTRALIA; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; OBSERVER VARIATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 38749086913     PISSN: 1466853X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ptsp.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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