Reproducibility of hand-held ankle dynamometry to measure altered ankle moment-angle characteristics in children with spastic cerebral palsy

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 802-808

  Bénard, Menno R ^a,b   Jaspers, Richard T ^a   Huijing, Peter A ^a   Becher, Jules G ^b   Harlaar, Jaap ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; Children; Hand held ankle dynamometer; Joint stiffness; Moment angle characteristics

Indexed keywords

ANGLE CURVES; ANKLE ANGLE; ANKLE JOINTS; ANKLE MOMENTS; CEREBRAL PALSY; DORSIFLEXIONS; HIGH RELIABILITY; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; JOINT STIFFNESS; MOMENT MEASUREMENTS; NON-RIGID; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; RANGE OF MOTIONS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; STANDARD ERRORS; TEST-RETEST RELIABILITY;

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; DEFORMATION; STIFFNESS;

DYNAMOMETERS;

ACCURACY; ANKLE; ANKLE ANGLE; ANKLE MOMENT; ANKLE MOMENT ANGLE CURVE; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DYNAMOMETER; DYNAMOMETRY; FEMALE; FOOT DORSIFLEXION; FOOT PLANTARFLEXION; HAND HELD ANKLE DYNAMOMETRY; HAND HELD DYNAMOMETER; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPASTIC CEREBRAL PALSY; STANDARD; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ANKLE JOINT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; FEMALE; FOOT DEFORMITIES, ACQUIRED; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE STRENGTH DYNAMOMETER; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77955562234     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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