The Irvine, Beatties, and Bresnahan (IBB) forelimb recovery scale: An assessment of reliability and validity

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 5 JUL, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Irvine, Karen Amanda ^a,b,c   Ferguson, Adam R ^a   Mitchell, Kathleen D ^a   Beattie, Stephanie B ^a   Lin, Amity ^a   Stuck, Ellen D ^a   Huie, J Russell ^a   Nielson, Jessica L ^a   Talbott, Jason F ^a   Inoue, Tomoo ^a,b,c   Beattie, Michael S ^a   Bresnahan, Jacqueline C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forelimb functional task; Recovery of function; Reliability; Spinal cord injury; Validity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FACE VALIDITY; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERNAL VALIDITY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; IRVINE BEATTIE AND BRESNAHAN SCALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; RAT; RATING SCALE; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 84904391979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2014.00116     Document Type: Article

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