The rivermead mobility index allows valid comparisons between subgroups of patients undergoing rehabilitation after stroke who differ with respect to age, sex, or side of lesion

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1086-1090

  Roorda, Leo D ^a   Green, John R ^b   Houwink, Annemieke ^c   Bagley, Pam J ^d   Smith, Jane ^b   Molenaar, Ivo W ^e   Geurts, Alexander C ^c,f  

^a Amsterdam Rehabilitation Research Center Reade   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f Sint Maartenskliniek ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Disability evaluation; Mobility limitation; Psychometrics; Rehabilitation; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOKKEN SCALE; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; REHABILITATION CENTER; RIVERMEAD MOBILITY INDEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN MAPPING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REHABILITATION CENTERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84861570741     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: 1532821X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2011.12.015     Document Type: Article

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