Original articles :Test-retest reliability and inter-rater reliability of the modified tardieu scale and the modified ashworth Scale in hemiplegic patients with stroke

European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 9-15

  Li, F ^b   Wu, Y ^a   Li, X ^a  

^a Hospital of Shanghai   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Muscle spasticity; Muscle tonus; Validation studies as topic

Indexed keywords

ANKLE; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABILITY; ELBOW; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE TONE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STROKE;

ANKLE JOINT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ELBOW JOINT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE TONUS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE;

EID: 84901632794     PISSN: 19739087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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