Effect of heat in increasing the range of knee motion after the development of a joint contracture: An experiment with an animal model

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 247-253

  Usuba, Mariko ^a,b   Miyanaga, Yutaka ^a   Miyakawa, Shumpei ^a   Maeshima, Toru ^c   Shirasaki, Yoshio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TSUKUBA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c MEJIRO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contracture; Immobilization; Infrared rays; Range of motion, articular; Rehabilitation; Ultrasonic therapy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAT; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IMMOBILIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT CONTRACTURE; JOINT MOBILIZATION; JOINT STIFFNESS; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NONHUMAN; RANGE OF MOTION; RAT; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANIMALS; CONTRACTURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; INFRARED RAYS; KNEE INJURIES; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 31444447495     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2005.10.015     Document Type: Article

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