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Interrater Reliability of a Modified Ashworth Scale of Muscle Spasticity

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  1. Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Victoria Hospital, Blackpool, UK

    Charalambos P. Charalambous MBChB, MD

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    Deiary F. Kader

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Charalambous, C.P. (2014). Interrater Reliability of a Modified Ashworth Scale of Muscle Spasticity. In: Banaszkiewicz, P., Kader, D. (eds) Classic Papers in Orthopaedics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5451-8_105

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