Inter-rater reliability of the Modified Modified Ashworth Scale in assessing lower limb muscle spasticity

Brain Injury

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 815-819

  Ghotbi, Nastaran ^a   Ansari, Noureddin Nakhostin ^a   Naghdi, Soofia ^a   Hasson, Scott ^b   Jamshidpour, Boushra ^a   Amiri, Somayeh ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement; Modified Modified Ashworth Scale; Reliability; Spasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HIP; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; KNEE; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MODIFIED MODIFIED ASHWORTH SCALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RATING SCALE; SPASTICITY;

EID: 72949118894     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699050903200548     Document Type: Article

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