Accuracy of predicting maximal quadriceps force from submaximal effort contractions after anterior cruciate ligament injury

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 500-505

  Farquhar, Sara J ^a   Chmielewski, Terese L ^b   Snyder Mackler, Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation failure; Anterior cruciate ligament; Burst superimposition test; Quadriceps weakness; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RUPTURE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONUS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE; THIGH; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 25844486942     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20366     Document Type: Article

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