Two common tests of dexterity can stratify upper limb motor function after stroke

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 788-796

  Thompson Butel, Angelica G ^a,b   Lin, Gaven G ^a   Shiner, Christine T ^a,b   McNulty, Penelope A ^a,b  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Box and Block Test; clinical study design; grooved pegboard test; hierarchical cluster analysis; motor function assessment; poststroke classification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BOX AND BLOCK TEST; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DEXTERITY TEST; FEMALE; FUGL MEYER ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GROOVED PEGBOARD TEST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; RANGE OF MOTION; WOLF MOTOR FUNCTION TEST; WRIST RANGE OF MOTION; ADOLESCENT; ARM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; HAND; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PARESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STROKE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PARESIS; STROKE; UPPER EXTREMITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84910091185     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968314523678     Document Type: Article

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