Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 90, Issue 9 , Pages 1541-1547 , September 2009

Intratester Reliability and Validity of Concentric Measurements Using a New Hand-Held Dynamometer

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 Supported by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology of New Zealand (contract no. C08X040).

 A commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has not conferred or will not confer a financial benefit on the author or one or more of the authors. Janssen and Le-Ngoc are employees of Industrial Research Limited (IRL), which developed the hand-held dynamometer. IRL intends to commercialize the dynamometer through joint venture or licensing agreement with a commercial party, which has not yet been identified. The authors will not be involved in the commercialization process, and no financial benefit will be conferred on the authors.

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doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2009.02.021

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 90, Issue 9 , Pages 1541-1547 , September 2009

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