Forelimb locomotor assessment scale (FLAS): Novel assessment of forelimb dysfunction after cervical spinal cord injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-33

  Anderson, Kim D ^a   Sharp, Kelli G ^a   Hofstadter, Maura ^a   Irvine, Karen Amanda ^b   Murray, Marion ^c   Steward, Oswald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Cervical injury; Contusion; FLAS; Forelimb; Locomotion; Rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; FEMALE; FOREFOOT; FORELIMB LOCOMOTOR ASSESSMENT SCALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; JOINT FUNCTION; LIMB DISEASE; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WALKING; WRIST;

ANIMALS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; MOVEMENT; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARESIS; POSTURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 70349754680     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.08.020     Document Type: Article

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