Reliability of maximal isometric knee strength testing with modified hand-held dynamometry in patients awaiting total knee arthroplasty: Useful in research and individual patient settings? A reliability study

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Koblbauer, Ian F H ^a   Lambrecht, Yannick ^a   Van Der Hulst, Micheline Lm ^b   Neeter, Camille ^a   Engelbert, Raoul H H ^a,c   Poolman, Rudolf W ^b   Scholtes, Vanessa A ^b  

^a AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b Joint Research   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DYNAMOMETRY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; ISOMETRICS; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OSTEOARTHRITIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; ARTHRALGIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; DYNAMOMETER; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ARTHRALGIA; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRENGTH DYNAMOMETER; OBSERVER VARIATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 80055011883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-12-249     Document Type: Article

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