Assessment of the cervical range of motion over time, differences between results of the Flock of Birds and the EDI-320: A comparison between an electromagnetic tracking system and an electronic inclinometer

Manual Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 450-455

  Assink, Nienke ^a   Bergman, Gert J D ^a   Knoester, Bianca ^a   Winters, Jan C ^a   Dijkstra, Pieter U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Assessment; Natural variation; Range of motion; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCLINOMETER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTHROMETRY, ARTICULAR; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 49149119306     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2007.05.012     Document Type: Article

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