Hand-held dynamometry in children with traumatic brain injury: Within-session reliability

Pediatric Physical Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 259-263

  Katz Leurer, Michal ^a,b   Rottem, Hemda ^a   Meyer, Shirley ^a  

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

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Child; Human movement system; Lower limb; Muscle strength dynamometer; Reliability; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; LEG; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MUSCLE STRENGTH; SCHOOL CHILD; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN INJURY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DYNAMOMETER; HIP; INSTRUMENTATION; ISRAEL; KNEE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HIP; HUMANS; ISRAEL; KNEE; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRENGTH DYNAMOMETER; PHYSICAL THERAPY (SPECIALTY); PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 56149119418     PISSN: 08985669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEP.0b013e3181824782     Document Type: Article

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