Reliability of lower limb motor evoked potentials in stroke and healthy populations: How many responses are needed?

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 748-754

  Lewis, Gwyn N ^a   Signal, Nada ^a   Taylor, Denise ^a  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Lower limb; Reliability; Stroke; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HEMIPLEGIA; LEG; MEASUREMENT; RELIABILITY; WALKING SPEED; CONVALESCENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STROKE;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896714668     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.07.029     Document Type: Article

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