The manual function test: Norms for 20- to 90-year-olds and effects of age, gender, and hand dominance on dexterity

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 214, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 257-267

  Michimata, Akira ^a   Kondo, Takeo ^a   Suzukamo, Yoshimi ^a   Chiba, Mirei ^a   Izumi, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Dexterity; Gender; Hemiplegia; Normative data

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MANUAL FUNCTION TEST; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; PSYCHOMETRY; SEX DIFFERENCE; AGING; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 41949103748     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.214.257     Document Type: Article

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