Interobserver reliability of the Australian Spasticity Assessment Scale (ASAS)

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2016, Pages 18-24

  Love, Sarah ^a,b   Gibson, Noula ^a   Smith, Nadine ^a   Bear, Natasha ^a,b   Blair, Eve ^b  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIAN SPASTICITY ASSESSMENT SCALE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION ASSESSMENT; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID PASSIVE MOVEMENT; SLOW PASSIVE MOVEMENT; SPASTICITY; TIBIALIS POSTERIOR MUSCLE; AUSTRALIA; CEREBRAL PALSY; INFANT; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; AUSTRALIA; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84957852017     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.13000     Document Type: Article

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