Assessment of minor or moderate balance disorders: A reliability study and comparison with healthy subjects

Advances in Physiotherapy

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-9

  Lindmark, Birgitta ^a   Liljenäs, Åsa ^b   Hellström, Karin ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assessment; Balance; Neurological disorders; Reliability testing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; BDL BALANCE SCALE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

EID: 84857623207     PISSN: 14038196     EISSN: 16511948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14038196.2011.640350     Document Type: Article

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