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Vol. 74, No. 4, April 1994, pp. 297-298
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Marie Koch, Margaret Gottschalk, Sally Palumbo, Dorothy I Baker and Mary E Tinetti

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

As the purposes of our study were to describe the development of the assessment and intervention protocol and to determine the interrater reliability of the assessment and intervention components, we did not discuss the literature on which the assessments and interventions were based. For readers who are interested, however, this literature is cited in an earlier manuscript.1

In discussing strength testing and training, Dr Hopp and Dr Svanborg seem to imply that not only are there limitations to the manual muscle testing and Thera-Band®* techniques—which we acknowledged in the manuscript—but that these techniques are inappropriate. Manual muscle testing and the Thera-Band® exercise programs, however, are the standard of practice in home-based physical therapy, where issues of timing, feasibility, portability, and safety are paramount. Dr Hopp and Dr Svanborg state that we should have taken isometric strength test or torque measurements at different speeds of movement....


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