An Early Return to Vigorous Activity May Destabilize Anterior Cruciate Ligaments Reconstructed with Hamstring Grafts

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 298-302

  Fujimoto, Eisaku ^a   Sumen, Yoshio ^a   Urabe, Yukio ^a   Deie, Masataka ^a   Murakami, Yuji ^a   Adachi, Nobuo ^a   Ochi, Mitsuo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament; Rehabilitation; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; JOINT INSTABILITY; JOINT LAXITY; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RUNNING; SPORT; TENDON GRAFT;

EID: 0842321062     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9993(03)00621-X     Document Type: Article

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