Conservative treatment for rugby football players with an acute isolated posterior cruciate ligament injury

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 110-114

  Toritsuka, Y ^a   Horibe, S ^b   Hiro oka, A ^c   Mitsuoka, T ^b   Nakamura, N ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Sekime Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conservative treatment; PCL; Rugby

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; KNEE LIGAMENT INJURY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RUGBY; SPORT INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CONVALESCENCE; FOOTBALL; INJURY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE LIGAMENT; METHODOLOGY; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EXERCISE THERAPY; FOOTBALL; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; PAIN; POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3342911403     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-003-0381-8     Document Type: Article

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