Reliability and validity of step test scores in subjects with chronic stroke

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1065-1071

  Hong, Sze Jia ^a   Goh, Esther Y ^b   Chua, Salan Y ^b   Ng, Shamay S ^c  

^a KHOO TECK PUAT HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular accident; Muscle contraction; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BERG BALANCE SCALE SCORE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DYNAMOMETER; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; LEG MUSCLE; LOWER EXTREMITY MOTOR COORDINATION TEST; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARALYSIS; REHABILITATION CENTER; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEP TEST; STROKE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VALIDITY; VIDEORECORDING; WALKING SPEED; WALKING SPEED TEST;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRENGTH DYNAMOMETER; OBSERVER VARIATION; REHABILITATION CENTERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; SINGAPORE; STROKE;

EID: 84861575893     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: 1532821X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2011.12.022     Document Type: Article

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