Effects of age and sex on the results of an ankle plantar-flexor manual muscle test

Physical Therapy

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1078-1084

  Jan, Mei Hwa ^a   Chai, Huei Ming ^a   Lin, Yeong Fwu ^b,c   Lin, Janice Chien Ho ^d   Tsai, Li Ying ^e   Ou, Yu Chih ^e   Lin, Da Hon ^f  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI CITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^f EN CHU KONG HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aging; Heel rise; Manual muscle test; Plantar flexor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HEEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 25844497394     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/85.10.1078     Document Type: Article

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