Validity of goniometric elbow measurements: Comparative study with a radiographic method

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 469, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3134-3140

  Chapleau, Julien ^a   Canet, Fanny ^b,c   Petit, Yvan ^b,c   Laflamme, G Yves ^b   Rouleau, Dominique M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELBOW EXTENSION; ELBOW FLEXION; ELBOW RADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GONIOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; RELIABILITY; STUDENT T TEST; VALIDITY;

EID: 80054761329     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-011-1986-8     Document Type: Article

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