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Reliability and validity of pendulum test measures of spasticity obtained with the Polhemus tracking system from patients with chronic stroke

BACKGROUND: Spasticity is a common impairment accompanying stroke. Spasticity of the quadriceps femoris muscle can be quantified using the pendulum test. The measurement properties of pendular kinematics captured using a magnetic tracking system has not been studied among patients who have experienc...

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Autores principales: Bohannon, Richard W, Harrison, Steven, Kinsella-Shaw, Jeffrey
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2724410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19642989
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-0003-6-30