Inter-rater Reliability of Sustained Aberrant Movement Patterns as a Clinical Assessment of Muscular Fatigue

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  • Frank Aerts
  • Kathy Carrier
  • Becky Alwood
چکیده

BACKGROUND The assessment of clinical manifestation of muscle fatigue is an effective procedure in establishing therapeutic exercise dose. Few studies have evaluated physical therapist reliability in establishing muscle fatigue through detection of changes in quality of movement patterns in a live setting. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to evaluate the inter-rater reliability of physical therapists' ability to detect altered movement patterns due to muscle fatigue. DESIGN A reliability study in a live setting with multiple raters. PARTICIPANTS Forty-four healthy individuals (ages 19-35) were evaluated by six physical therapists in a live setting. METHODS Participants were evaluated by physical therapists for altered movement patterns during resisted shoulder rotation. Each participant completed a total of four tests: right shoulder internal rotation, right shoulder external rotation, left shoulder internal rotation and left shoulder external rotation. RESULTS For all tests combined, the inter-rater reliability for a single rater scoring ICC (2,1) was .65 (95%, .60, .71) This corresponds to moderate inter-rater reliability between physical therapists. LIMITATIONS The results of this study apply only to healthy participants and therefore cannot be generalized to a symptomatic population. CONCLUSION Moderate inter-rater reliability was found between physical therapists in establishing muscle fatigue through the observation of sustained altered movement patterns during dynamic resistive shoulder internal and external rotation.

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دوره 10  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016