Basic requirements for utility in the assessment of physical disability

Abdel-Moty, 1993, Functional capacity and residual functional capacity and their utility in measuring work capacity, Clin J Pain, 9, 168, 10.1097/00002508-199309000-00003 National Council on Measurement in Education, 1985 Bechtol, 1954, Grip test, the use of a dynamometer with adjustable handle spacings, J Bone Joint Surg, 36A, 820, 10.2106/00004623-195436040-00013 Caldwell, 1974, A proposed standard procedure for static muscle strength testing, Am Ind Hyg Assoc J, 35, 201, 10.1080/0002889748507023 Charlton, 1983, Use of multivariate measures of disability in health surveys, J Epidemiol Community Health, 37, 296, 10.1136/jech.37.4.296 Chengalur, 1990, Assessing sincerity of effort in maximal grip strength tests, Am J Phys Med Rehabil, 69, 148, 10.1097/00002060-199006000-00010 Clark, 1993, The development of guideline factors for the evaluation of disability in neck and back injuries, Spine, 18, 1736, 10.1097/00007632-199310000-00004 Cronbach, 1972 De Vellis, 1991 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1978, Uniform guidelines on employee selection procedures, Federal Register, 43, 38290 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1991, Rules and regulations, Federal Register, 56, 35726 Fess, 1986, The need for reliability and validity in hand assessment instruments, J Hand Surg, 11A, 621, 10.1016/S0363-5023(86)80001-6 Fleishman, 1972, On the relation between abilities, learning, and human performance, Am Psychol Nov, 1017, 10.1037/h0033881 Flood-Joy, 1987, Grip strength measurement: a comparison of three Jamar dynamometers, Occup Ther J Res, 7, 235, 10.1177/153944928700700405 Gloss, 1980, Assessment of three methods for rating, hand impairment Harms-Ringdahl, 1993, Introduction, 1 Harris, 1993, Muscle performance: principles and general theory, 5 Hart, 1993, Guidelines for functional capacity evaluation of people with medical conditions, J Occup Sports Physical Ther, 18 Hazard, 1989, Functional restoration with behavioral support: a one-year prospective study of patients with chronic low-back pain, Spine, 14, 157, 10.1097/00007632-198902000-00003 Hazard, 1988, Isokinetic trunk and lifting strength measurements: variability as an indicator of effort, Spine, 13, 54, 10.1097/00007632-198801000-00013 Kirkpatrick, 1956, Evaluation of grip loss, Calif Med, 85, 314 Kohles, 1990, Improved physical performance outcomes after functional restoration treatment in patients with chronic low back pain: early versus recent training results, Spine, 15, 1321, 10.1097/00007632-199012000-00016 Matheson, 1982 Matheson, 1986, Evaluation of lifting and lowering capacity, Voc Eval Work Adjust Bull, 19, 107 Matheson, 1993, Survey of ergonomic curricula in occupational therapy and physical therapy training programs in the United States Matheson, 1993, Development of a measure of perceived functional ability, J Occup Rehabil, 3, 15, 10.1007/BF01076739 Matheson, 1992, Effect of instructions on isokinetic trunk strength testing variability, reliability, absolute value, and predictive validity, Spine, 17, 914, 10.1097/00007632-199208000-00008 Mayer, 1987, A prospective two-year study of functional restoration in industrial low back injury, JAMA, 258, 1763, 10.1001/jama.1987.03400130077037 NCMRR: National Advisory Board on Medical Rehabilitation Research (1992), 1992, Report and research plan for the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research. National Institute of Child and Human Development, National Institutes of Health Nagi, 1975 National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1981, Work practices guide for manual lifting Newton, 1993, Trunk strength testing with iso-machines. Part 2: Experimental evaluation of the Cybex II back testing system in normal subjects and patients with chronic low back pain, Spine, 18, 812, 10.1097/00007632-199306000-00002 Newton, 1993, Trunk strength testing with isomachines. Part 1: Review of a decade of scientific evidence, Spine, 18, 801, 10.1097/00007632-199306000-00001 1993 Stokes, 1989, EMG to torque relationships in rectus abdominis muscle: results with repeated testing, Spine, 14, 857, 10.1097/00007632-198908000-00015 Task Force on Standards for Measurement in Physical Therapy, 1991, Standards for tests and measurements in physical therapy practice, Phys Ther, 71, 589, 10.1093/ptj/71.8.589 Troup, 1987, The perception of back pain and the role of psychophysical tests of lifting capacity, Spine, 12, 645, 10.1097/00007632-198709000-00003 Turk, 1988, The disability determination dilemma: toward a multiaxial solution, Pain, 34, 217, 10.1016/0304-3959(88)90117-0 United States Department of Labor, 1991 Waddell, 1993, A fear-avoidance beliefs questionnaire (FA BQ) and the role of fear-avoidance beliefs in chronic low back pain and disability, Pain, 52, 157, 10.1016/0304-3959(93)90127-B World Health Organisation, 1980