Is diagrammatic goniometry feasible for finger ROM evaluation and self-evaluation?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 471, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1894-1903

  Macionis, Valdas ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTHROMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF EVALUATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROMETRY, ARTICULAR; BIOMECHANICS; DIAGNOSTIC SELF EVALUATION; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879316403     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-012-2777-6     Document Type: Article

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