Measuring Methods for Functional Reach Test: Comparison of 1-Arm Reach and 2-Arm Reach

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2103-2107

  Kage, Haruko ^a,b   Okuda, Masayuki ^b   Nakamura, Ippei ^b,c   Kunitsugu, Ichiro ^b   Sugiyama, Shinichi ^b   Hobara, Tatsuya ^b  

^a YIC Rehabilitation College   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Munakata Suikoukai General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; FUNCTIONAL REACH TEST; HEEL; HUMAN; MALE; PRESSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; POSTURAL BALANCE; ROTATION; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 71049158069     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2009.07.021     Document Type: Article

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