Lateral force-displacement behaviour of the human patella and its variation with knee flexion - A biomechanical study in vitro

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1147-1152

  Farahmand, F ^a   Tahmasbi, M N ^b   Amis, A A ^c  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Patella; Patellofemoral joint; Stability test

Indexed keywords

BONE; CADAVERIC EXPERIMENTS; FORCE MEASUREMENT; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

KNEE EXTENSOR MUSCLES; PATELLA; PATELLOFEMORAL JOINT;

BIOMECHANICS;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT MOBILITY; JOINT STABILITY; KNEE DISLOCATION; KNEE FUNCTION; MUSCLE FORCE; PATELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATELLA; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; ROTATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0032444888     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(98)00125-0     Document Type: Article

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