What is the normal response to structural differentiation within the slump and straight leg raise tests?

Manual Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 289-294

  Herrington, Lee ^a   Bendix, Katie ^a   Cornwell, Catherine ^a   Fielden, Nicola ^a   Hankey, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lower limb; Neurodynamic testing; Structural differentiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; GONIOMETRY; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SLUMP TEST; STRAIGHT LEG RAISE TEST;

ADULT; ARTHROMETRY, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; OBSERVER VARIATION;

EID: 45249104884     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2007.01.013     Document Type: Article

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