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Twenty patients were tested 2 weeks after their stroke, and 12 patients were tested 12 weeks after their stroke. Methods. Gastrocnemius, soleus, and quadriceps femoris muscles on the hemiplegic side were tested. Results. Interrater reliability for 2 raters was poor, with a Kendall tau-b correlation for the combined muscle group of .062 (P=.461). For intrarater reliability, the Kendall tau-b correlation was .567 (P&amp;lt;.001). The agreement within one rater occurred mostly on the grade of 0. Discussion and Conclusion. The Modified Ashworth Scale yielded reliable measurements in the lower limb for a single examiner, and agreement was best on the grade of 0. 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