Scapular positioning assessment: Is side-to-side comparison clinically acceptable?

Manual Therapy

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 46-53

  Morais, Nuno Valente ^a   Pascoal, Augusto Gil ^b  

^a Fração AC ^*  (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

3D scapular kinematics; Arm elevation; Asymmetry; Hand dominance

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTACT ANGLE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; KINEMATICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REST; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCAPULA; THORAX; TILTING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; ROTATION; SCAPULA; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84871922794     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: 15322769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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