Proper statistical analysis begins with understanding the specific comparison being made. Common mistakes often stem from ...

Purpose proper chewing and swallowing functions have great importance in general health, since it potentially affects food’s digestion and the subject’s nutritional status. The aim was to assess the ...

The Sarcopenia Optoelectronic Chair-Rise Velocity Test (SARC-T) has been proposed as an instrumented chair-rise measure related to physical function in sarcopenia; however, its test-retest measurement ...

Correspondence to Dr Alex Gillespie, Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE, UK; A.T.Gillespie{at}lse.ac.uk Background Letters of complaint written by patients ...

1 Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan 2 Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University of Science, Sapporo, Japan 3 Faculty of ...

OBJECTIVES: to produce evidence of the validity and reliability of the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ) - a tool for measuring an individual's attitude towards his or her body image. METHODS: the study ...

Objective Several lower limb tendinopathy treatment modalities involve identification of pathological paratendinous or intratendinous neovascularisation to target proposed co-location of painful ...

Objective To determine the test–retest reliability of the Brain Injury Screening Tool (BIST), which was designed to support the initial assessment of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) across a ...

Objectives Patient experience questionnaires have been criticised owing to the lack of supporting psychometric evidence. The objective of this study was to describe the development and psychometric ...