Objectives Evaluation of the inter-rater reliability of clinical assessment methods for pelvic floor muscles and diastasis recti abdominis post partum. Design A multicentre inter-rater reliability ...

BACKGROUND: The Pediatric Balance Scale (PBS) was developed from a modified version of the Berg Balance Scale aiming to obtain a balance scale more appropriate for the child population. OBJECTIVES: To ...

1 Melbourne School of Physiotherapy, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 2 Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 3 Melbourne Brain Centre, ...

Objectives The objectives of this study were to asses (1) inter-rater and intrarater reliability of ultrasound imaging in patients with hip osteoarthritis, and (2) agreement between ultrasound and ...

Data sources An electronic database search was conducted (to 6 August 2012) of databases such as: MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, PubMed and Cochrane Databases. References from identified articles were ...

The aim of the study was to analyze the relative and absolute reliability of intra-session comparisons of three repetitions in a protocol for assessment peak muscle strength in a knee extension and ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Digital and analogue algometry have been widely employed in clinical studies, but a recent investigation observed a systematic error ...

Objective Manifestations of SLE can be categorised as type 1 (classic signs and symptoms of SLE) or type 2 (fatigue, widespread pain and brain fog with an unclear relationship to inflammation). While ...