Clinical assessment of the low-cost VariCom isokinetic knee exerciser

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 273-278

  Greenblatt, David ^a   Diesel, Wayne ^b   Noakes, Timothy David ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UCT Medical School ^*  (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Appropriate technology; Developing world rehabilitation; Isokinetics; Knee rehabilitation; Rehabilitation engineering

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDIES; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; KNEE JOINT;

EID: 0030836017     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(96)00065-3     Document Type: Article

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