Normative data and test-retest reliability of the sinusoidal harmonic acceleration test, pseudorandom rotation test and velocity step test

Journal of Vestibular Research: Equilibrium and Orientation

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 197-208

  Maes, Leen ^a   Dhooge, Ingeborg ^a   De Vel, Eddy ^b   D'haenens, Wendy ^a   Bockstael, Annelies ^a   Keppler, Hannah ^a   Philips, Birgit ^a   Swinnen, Freya ^a   Vinck, Bart M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC); Method error (ME); Minimal detectable difference (MDD); Normative; Pseudorandom rotation test (PRRT); Reliability; Rotational paradigms; Sinusoidal harmonic acceleration test (SHAT); Velocity step test (VST)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDORANDOM ROTATION TEST; SINUSOIDAL HARMONIC ACCELERATION TEST; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VELOCITY STEP TEST; VESTIBULAR TEST; ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; EXERCISE TEST; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROTATION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EXERCISE TEST; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NYSTAGMUS, PHYSIOLOGIC; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; SEX FACTORS; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 63049106583     PISSN: 09574271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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