Manual Therapy
Volume 14, Issue 4 , Pages 397-403 , August 2009

The validity and intra-tester reliability of a clinical measure of humeral head position

Received 18 December 2007 ,Revised 6 May 2008 ,Accepted 29 June 2008.

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Manual Therapy
Volume 14, Issue 4 , Pages 397-403 , August 2009

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