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International Journal of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Volume 4 (2018), Article ID 4:IJPTR-140, 5 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2455-7498/2018/140
Research Article
Physical Assessment of Sternal Stability Following a Median Sternotomy for Cardiac Surgery: Validity and Reliability of the Sternal Instability Scale (SIS)

Doa El-Ansary1,2*, Gordon Waddington3, Linda Denehy4, Margaret McManus 5, Louise Fuller6, Md Ali Katijjahbe7 and Roger Adams8

1Department of Health Professions, Faculty of Health, Design and Art, Swinburne University, Physiotherapy, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2Department of Surgery, Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
3School of Health Sciences, The University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia
4School of Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
5Cardiology Department, The Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australia
6Physiotherapy Department, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
7Department of Physiotherapy, Hospital Canselor Tuaku Mukhriz, University Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, 56000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
8School of Physiotherapy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Assoc. Prof. Doa El-Ansary, Director of Physiotherapy, Department of Health Professions, Faculty of Health, Design and Art, Swinburne University; E-mail: delansary@swin.edu.au
03 January 2018; 18 March 2018; 20 March 2018
El-Ansary D, Waddington G, Denehy L, McManus M, Fuller L, et al. (2018) Physical Assessment of Sternal Stability Following a Median Sternotomy for Cardiac Surgery: Validity and Reliability of the Sternal Instability Scale (SIS). Int J Phys Ther Rehab 4: 140. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2455-7498/2018/140
© 2018 El-Ansary et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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