Reliability of kinematic measures of functional reaching in children with cerebral palsy

Aim  The determination of rehabilitation effectiveness in children with cerebral palsy (CP) depends on the metric properties of the outcome measure. We evaluated the reliability of kinematic measures of functional upper limb reaching movements in children with CP.

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