Inter-rater reliability of Rolimeter measurements between anterior cruciate ligament injured and normal contra lateral knees

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 592-597

  Papandreou, Maria G ^a,c   Antonogiannakis, Emmanuel ^b   Karabalis, Christos ^b   Karliaftis, Konstantinos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^b 401 GENERAL MILITARY HOSPITAL OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

ACL deficiency; Anterior tibial displacement; KT1000 arthrometer; Reliability; Rolimeter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMAN; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE; KNEE INJURY; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PILOT STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE INJURIES; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PILOT PROJECTS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 26444544528     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-004-0597-2     Document Type: Article

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