Inter- and intra-examiner reliability of single and composites of selected motion palpation and pain provocation tests for sacroiliac joint

Manual Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 213-221

  Arab, Amir Massoud ^a   Abdollahi, Iraj ^a   Joghataei, Mohammad Taghi ^b   Golafshani, Zahra ^a   Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Low back pain; Reliability; Sacroiliac joint; Test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PALPATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SACROILIAC JOINT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60949083652     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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