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The unreliability of clinical measures of muscle tone: implications for stroke therapy

Author(s) -

Valerie M. Pomeroy

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

age and ageing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014

H-Index - 143

eISSN - 1468-2834

pISSN - 0002-0729

DOI - 10.1093/ageing/29.3.229

Subject(s) - muscle tone , medicine , physical medicine and rehabilitation , visual analogue scale , rehabilitation , physical therapy , spastic , stroke (engine) , modified ashworth scale , tone (literature) , apraxia , elbow , audiology , surgery , cerebral palsy , art , literature , aphasia , psychiatry , engineering , mechanical engineering

he central tenet of the neurofacilitatory approach to stroke therapy is that muscle tone needs to be normal before normal movement can occur. A reliable clinical measure of the full spectrum of muscle tone is needed to test: (i) the purported relationship between muscle tone, other motor impairments and disability, and (ii) the effectiveness of stroke therapy to restore movement.

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