Associations of upper limb disability measures on different levels of the international classification of functioning, disability and health in people with multiple sclerosis

Physical Therapy

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 65-75

  Lamers, Ilse ^a   Cattaneo, Davide ^b   Chen, Christine C ^c   Bertoni, Rita ^d   Van Wijmeersch, Bart ^a   Feys, Peter ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^d Larice Lab Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOUCH; TREMOR;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOUCH; TREMOR; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84920400934     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20130588     Document Type: Article

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