The effect of the patellar tendon-bearing cast on loading

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 228-232

  Tanaka, H ^a   Nagata, K ^a   Goto, T ^a   Hoshiko, H ^a   Inoue, A ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FOOT SOLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOADING TEST; MALE; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; PATELLA TENDON; PLASTER CAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; TECHNIQUE; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 0034067234     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.82B2 .9443     Document Type: Article

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