Intra- and inter-rater reliability of a modified measure of hand behind back range of motion

Manual Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 72-76

  van den Dolder, Paul A ^a,b   Ferreira, Paulo H ^a   Refshauge, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District   (Australia)

Author keywords

Range of motion, articular; Reproducibility of results; Shoulder

Indexed keywords

ADDUCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CLINIMETRICS; ELBOW FLEXION; FEMALE; HAND BEHIND BACK; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILIAC CREST; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR SUPERIOR ILIAC SPINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER ADDUCTION; SHOULDER INTERNAL ROTATION; THUMB; ARTHROMETRY; AUSTRALIA; BODY POSTURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELBOW; HAND; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHOULDER;

ADULT; ARTHROMETRY, ARTICULAR; AUSTRALIA; COHORT STUDIES; ELBOW JOINT; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SHOULDER JOINT;

EID: 84891634267     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: 15322769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2013.08.002     Document Type: Article

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