Development of the persian version of the modified modified ashworth scale: Translation, adaptation, and examination of interrater and intrarater reliability in patients with poststroke elbow flexor spasticity

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 1843-1847

  Nakhostin Ansari, Noureddin ^a   Naghdi, Soofia ^a   Forogh, Bijan ^b   Hasson, Scott ^c   Atashband, Mitra ^a   Lashgari, Elham ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Modified Modified Ashworth Scale; Persian language; Reliability; Spasticity; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELBOW; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; IRAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPASTICITY; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELBOW JOINT; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; IRAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE; TRANSLATING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865396314     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2012.665133     Document Type: Article

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