A clinical tool to measure trunk control in children with cerebral palsy: The Trunk Control Measurement Scale

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2624-2635

  Heyrman, Lieve ^a   Molenaers, Guy ^b   Desloovere, Kaat ^a,b   Verheyden, Geert ^c   De Cat, Jos ^b   Monbaliu, Elegast ^a   Feys, Hilde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; Measurement scale; Reliability; Trunk control; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GROSS MOTOR FUNCTION CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPASTICITY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TRUNK; TRUNK CONTROL MEASUREMENT SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; POSTURE; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TORSO;

EID: 80053623385     PISSN: 08914222     EISSN: 18733379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.06.012     Document Type: Article

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