Relationship of Q angle and joint hypermobility and Q angle values in different positions

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 304-308

  Sendur, Omer Faruk ^a   Gurer, Gulcan ^a   Yildirim, Tuncay ^a   Ozturk, Emine ^a   Aydeniz, Ali ^a  

^a ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Beighton score; Hypermobility; Q angle; Skeletal deformity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY POSITION; BODY WEIGHT; BONE MALFORMATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT HYPERMOBILITY; KNEE DISEASE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; Q ANGLE; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPINE POSITION;

ADULT; FOOT DEFORMITIES; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE JOINT; MALE; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; STUDENTS; SUPINE POSITION; TURKEY; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 33645763479     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-005-0003-6     Document Type: Article

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