Reliability of Spinal Range of Motion in Healthy Boys Using a Skin-Surface Device

Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 570-576

  Kellis, Eleftherios ^a   Adamou, Grigoris ^b   Tzilios, Gerasimos ^a   Emmanouilidou, Maria ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Research Collaborator   (Greece)

Author keywords

Child; Range of Motion, Articular; Reproducibility of Results; Skin; Spine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RANGE OF MOTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN SURFACE; SPINE MOBILITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTHROMETRY, ARTICULAR; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; OBSERVER VARIATION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REFERENCE VALUES; SACRUM; SOFTWARE; SPINAL CURVATURES; SPINE; TELEMETRY; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 54549107839     PISSN: 01614754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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