Functional balance tests for children with traumatic brain injury: Within-session reliability

Pediatric Physical Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 254-258

  Katz Leurer, Michal ^a,b   Rotem, Hemda ^a   Lewitus, Hana ^a   Keren, Ofer ^a   Meyer, Shirley ^a  

^a Alyn Orthopaedic Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre for Physically Handicapped Children Israel   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Children; Human movement system; Postural equilibrium; Reliability; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BRAIN INJURY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DISABILITY; INSTRUMENTATION; ISRAEL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PHYSICAL THERAPY (SPECIALTY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 56149111819     PISSN: 08985669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEP.0b013e3181820dd8     Document Type: Article

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