Electromechanical delay of the knee extensor muscles is not altered after harvesting the patellar tendon as a graft for ACL reconstruction: Implications for sports performance

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 437-443

  Georgoulis, A D ^a,c   Ristanis, S ^a   Papadonikolakis, A ^a   Tsepis, E ^a   Moebius, U ^a   Moraiti, C ^a   Stergiou, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

ACL reconstruction; Electromechanical delay; Patellar tendon; Scar tissue development; Sports performance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INJURY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOTATIC REFLEX; PATELLA; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPORT INJURY; TENDON; TORQUE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATELLA; REFLEX, STRETCH; TENDONS; TORQUE;

EID: 25444517305     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-005-0656-3     Document Type: Article

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