A six-degrees-of-freedom instrumented linkage for measuring the flexibility characteristics of the ankle joint complex

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 943-947

  Siegler, Sorin ^a,d   Lapointe, Stephan ^b   Nobilini, Robert ^a   Berman, Arnold T ^c  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PODIATRIC MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HAHNEMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ankle; Diagnosis; Flexibility; Ligaments; Linkage

Indexed keywords

ANKLE; ANKLE INJURY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; HUMAN; INJURY; LIGAMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ACCURACY; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; LIGAMENT INJURY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

ANKLE INJURIES; ANKLE JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; PLIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

DATA PROCESSING; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; LIGAMENTS; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; RELIABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANKLE FLEXIBILITY TESTER; FLEXIBILITY MEASUREMENT; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; MANUAL PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

EID: 0029661898     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0021-9290(95)00165-4     Document Type: Article

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