Is it legitimate to characterize muscle strength using a limited number ofmeasures?

Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 166-173

  Bohannon, Richard W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dynamometry; Measurement; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ARM; CALIBRATION; DYNAMOMETER; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STANDARD;

CALIBRATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRENGTH DYNAMOMETER; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 41649111939     PISSN: 10648011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1519/JSC.0b013e31815f993d     Document Type: Article

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