Reliability and validity of the Medical Research Council (MRC) scale and a modified scale for testing muscle strength in patients with radial palsy

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 665-671

  Paternostro Sluga, Tatjana ^a   Grim Stieger, Martina ^a   Posch, Martin ^a   Schuhfried, Othmar ^a   Vacariu, Gerda ^a   Mittermaier, Christian ^a   Bittner, Christian ^a   Fialka Moser, Veronika ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Manual muscle strength testing; Medical Research Council scale; Peripheral nerve lesion; Radial palsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DYNAMOMETRY; FEMALE; FINGER; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL SCALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; RADIAL NERVE PALSY; RANGE OF MOTION; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIAL NEUROPATHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 53349144899     PISSN: 16501977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/16501977-0235     Document Type: Article

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