Clinical assessment of ankle plantarflexor spasticity in adult patients after stroke: Inter-and intra-rater reliability of the Modified Tardieu Scale

Brain Injury

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 605-612

  Ansari, Noureddin Nakhostin ^a   Naghdi, Soofia ^a   Hasson, Scott ^b   Rastgoo, Maryam ^a   Amini, Malek ^a   Forogh, Bijan ^c,d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Modified Tardieu Scale; Reliability; Spasticity; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MODIFIED TARDIEU SCALE; PLANTARFLEXOR MUSCLE; RATING SCALE; SPASTICITY; STROKE PATIENT; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

EID: 84876238845     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2012.750744     Document Type: Article

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