How many body locations need to be tested when assessing sensation after stroke? An investigation of redundancy in the Rivermead Assessment of Somatosensory Performance

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 91-95

  Busse, Monica ^a   Tyson, Sarah F ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY DISTRIBUTION; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MOBILITY; PROPRIOCEPTION; RIVERMEAD ASSESSMENT OF SOMATOSENSORY PERFORMANCE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY EVALUATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TACTILE STIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEAKNESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; STROKE; TOUCH;

EID: 58149350242     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269215508097296     Document Type: Article

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