Manual Therapy
Volume 15, Issue 2 , Pages 167-172 , April 2010

Examination of musculoskeletal chest pain – An inter-observer reliability study

  • Mads Hostrup Brunse

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
    • Nordic Institute of Chiropractic and Clinical Biomechanics, Part of Clinical Locomotion Science, Forskerparken 10A, Odense, Denmark
    • ,
  • Mette Jensen Stochkendahl

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
    • Nordic Institute of Chiropractic and Clinical Biomechanics, Part of Clinical Locomotion Science, Forskerparken 10A, Odense, Denmark
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Nordic Institute of Chiropractic and Clinical Biomechanics, Part of Clinical Locomotion Science, Forskerparken 10A, Odense, Denmark. Tel.: +45 6550 4520; fax: +45 6591 7378.
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  • Werner Vach

      Affiliations

    • Nordic Institute of Chiropractic and Clinical Biomechanics, Part of Clinical Locomotion Science, Forskerparken 10A, Odense, Denmark
    • Department of Statistics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
    • ,
  • Alice Kongsted

      Affiliations

    • Nordic Institute of Chiropractic and Clinical Biomechanics, Part of Clinical Locomotion Science, Forskerparken 10A, Odense, Denmark
    • ,
  • Erik Poulsen

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
    • Nordic Institute of Chiropractic and Clinical Biomechanics, Part of Clinical Locomotion Science, Forskerparken 10A, Odense, Denmark
    • ,
  • Jan Hartvigsen

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
    • Nordic Institute of Chiropractic and Clinical Biomechanics, Part of Clinical Locomotion Science, Forskerparken 10A, Odense, Denmark
    • ,
  • Henrik Wulff Christensen

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
    • Nordic Institute of Chiropractic and Clinical Biomechanics, Part of Clinical Locomotion Science, Forskerparken 10A, Odense, Denmark

Received 30 June 2009 ,Revised 23 September 2009 ,Accepted 7 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.math.2009.10.003

Manual Therapy
Volume 15, Issue 2 , Pages 167-172 , April 2010

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