Commentary: Validity and responsiveness of measures of walking in lumbar spinal stenosis - What are we measuring?

Spine Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 110-112

  Tomkins Lane, Christy C ^a  

^a MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALANCE DISORDER; CLAUDICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; HALO EFFECT; HUMAN; JOINT STIFFNESS; LUMBAR SPINE; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; WALKING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; SPINAL STENOSIS; WALKING;

EID: 84858256234     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: 18781632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2012.01.007     Document Type: Note

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