Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the VISA-A questionnaire for German-speaking Achilles tendinopathy patients

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Lohrer, Heinz ^a   Nauck, Tanja ^a  

^a Institute for Sports Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDINITIS; ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SYNTHESIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDITY; ACHILLES TENDON; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; GERMANY; HOSPITALIZATION; INJURY; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REPRODUCIBILITY; RUNNING; TENDINITIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RUNNING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TENDINOPATHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72949108025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-10-134     Document Type: Article

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