Functional capability is enhanced with semitendinosus than patellar tendon ACL repair

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1486-1492

  Rudroff, Thorsten ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

EMG; GAIT analysis; Knee stability; Neuromuscular control; SQUAT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GAIT; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; JUMPING; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE INSTABILITY; LIGAMENT SURGERY; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PATELLA TENDON; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; SPORT INJURY; STANDING; TENDON GRAFT;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; GAIT; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE INJURIES; KNEE JOINT; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TENDONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0043234933     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000084425.07852.7D     Document Type: Article

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