Test-retest relative and absolute reliability of knee extensor strength measures and minimal detectable change

Isokinetics and Exercise Science

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-26

  Ferri Morales, Asunción ^a   Alegre, Luis M ^a   Basco, Angel ^a   Aguado, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

dynamometry; Rehabilitation; reproducibility of results; torque

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CONCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; DYNAMOMETER; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE EXTENSOR STRENGTH; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TORQUE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896869200     PISSN: 09593020     EISSN: 18785913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IES-130522     Document Type: Article

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