Assessment of a portable device for the quantitative measurement of ankle joint stiffness in spastic individuals

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Assessment of a portable device for the quantitative measurement of ankle joint stiffness in spastic individuals. / Lorentzen, Jakob; Grey, Michael J.; Geertsen, Svend S.; Biering-Sorensen, Fin; Brunton, Kelly; Gorassini, Monica; Nielsen, Jens Bo.

In: Clinical Neurophysiology, Vol. 123, No. 7, 2012, p. 1371-1382.

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Lorentzen, J, Grey, MJ, Geertsen, SS, Biering-Sorensen, F, Brunton, K, Gorassini, M & Nielsen, JB 2012, 'Assessment of a portable device for the quantitative measurement of ankle joint stiffness in spastic individuals', Clinical Neurophysiology, vol. 123, no. 7, pp. 1371-1382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2011.11.001

APA

Lorentzen, J., Grey, M. J., Geertsen, S. S., Biering-Sorensen, F., Brunton, K., Gorassini, M., & Nielsen, J. B. (2012). Assessment of a portable device for the quantitative measurement of ankle joint stiffness in spastic individuals. Clinical Neurophysiology, 123(7), 1371-1382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2011.11.001

Vancouver

Lorentzen J, Grey MJ, Geertsen SS, Biering-Sorensen F, Brunton K, Gorassini M et al. Assessment of a portable device for the quantitative measurement of ankle joint stiffness in spastic individuals. Clinical Neurophysiology. 2012;123(7):1371-1382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2011.11.001

Author

Lorentzen, Jakob ; Grey, Michael J. ; Geertsen, Svend S. ; Biering-Sorensen, Fin ; Brunton, Kelly ; Gorassini, Monica ; Nielsen, Jens Bo. / Assessment of a portable device for the quantitative measurement of ankle joint stiffness in spastic individuals. In: Clinical Neurophysiology. 2012 ; Vol. 123, No. 7. pp. 1371-1382.

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title = "Assessment of a portable device for the quantitative measurement of ankle joint stiffness in spastic individuals",
abstract = "OBJECTIVE: Spasticity is a common complication with neurological diseases and CNS lesions. Instrumented systems to evaluate spasticity often cannot provide an immediate result, thus limiting their clinical usefulness. In this study we investigated the accuracy and reliability of the portable Neurokinetics RA1 Ridgidity Analyzer to measure stiffness of the ankle joint in 46 controls, 14 spinal cord injured (SCI) and 23 multiple sclerosis (MS) participants. METHODS: Ankle stiffness measures were made twice by two raters, at speeds above and below the expected stretch reflex threshold. Ankle torque was measured with the portable device and a stationary torque motor. Inter- and intra-rater reliability was assessed with the intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC). RESULTS: Stiffness measures with the portable and stationary devices were significantly correlated for controls and MS participants (p",
keywords = "Spasticity, Spasticity evaluation, Stiffness, Spinal cord injury, Multiple sclerosis",
author = "Jakob Lorentzen and Grey, {Michael J.} and Geertsen, {Svend S.} and Fin Biering-Sorensen and Kelly Brunton and Monica Gorassini and Nielsen, {Jens Bo}",
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