Feasibility and validity of a graded one-legged cycle exercise test to determine peak aerobic capacity in older people with a Lower-Limb Amputation

Physical Therapy

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 329-338

  Wezenberg, Daphne ^a   de Haan, Arnold ^a   van der Woude, Lucas H ^b   Houdijk, Han ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG; LIMB PROSTHESIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY;

AMPUTATION; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

EID: 84856727881     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20110125     Document Type: Article

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