Intra-rater reliability of the Modified Modified Ashworth Scale (MMAS) in the assessment of upper-limb muscle spasticity

NeuroRehabilitation

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 215-222

  Ansari, Noureddin Nakhostin ^a   Naghdi, Soofia ^a   Mashayekhi, Masoud ^a   Hasson, Scott ^b   Fakhari, Zahra ^a   Jalaie, Shohreh ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

contracture; Modified Modified Ashworth Scale; pain; reliability; Spasticity

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARM MUSCLE SPASTICITY; ARM PAIN; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELBOW DISEASE; FEMALE; GONIOMETRY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; JOINT CONTRACTURE; MALE; MODIFIED MODIFIED ASHWORTH SCALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; MYALGIA; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PHYSIOTHERAPY; SHOULDER DISEASE; SPASTICITY; SUPINE POSITION; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; WRIST DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UPPER EXTREMITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866880093     PISSN: 10538135     EISSN: 18786448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/NRE-2012-0791     Document Type: Article

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