Tendon thickness and depth from skin for supraspinatus, common wrist and finger extensors, patellar and achilles tendons: Ultrasonography study of healthy subjects

Physiotherapy

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 375-383

  Bjordal, Jan Magnus ^a   Demmink, Jan Hendrik ^b   Ljunggren, Anne Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INDIVIDUALITY; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATELLA TENDON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHOULDER; SPORT; STANDARDIZATION; TENDON; THICKNESS; WRIST;

EID: 0038039014     PISSN: 00319406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9406(05)60030-2     Document Type: Article

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