How Many Trials Are Needed to Achieve Performance Stability of the Timed Up & Go Test in Patients With Hip Fracture?

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 885-889

  Kristensen, Morten T ^a,b   Ekdahl, Charlotte ^a   Kehlet, Henrik ^b   Bandholm, Thomas ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Hip fractures; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SCORING SYSTEM; SEAT; TIMED UP AND GO; WALKING AID;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MOBILITY LIMITATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; WALKERS; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 77952683224     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2010.01.021     Document Type: Article

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