Prevention of stress fractures using custom biomechanical shoe orthoses

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 360, Issue , 1999, Pages 182-190

  Finestone, Aharon ^a   Giladi, Michael ^b   Elad, Hadar ^a   Salmon, Asher ^a   Mendelson, Steven ^c   Eldad, Arieh ^a   Milgrom, Charles ^c  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHOE; STRESS FRACTURE; TRAINING;

EID: 0033001063     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199903000-00022     Document Type: Article

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