The anterior cruciate ligament deficiency as a model of brain plasticity

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 645-650

  Kapreli, Eleni ^a,b   Athanasopoulos, Spyridon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b TEI of Lamia   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; JOINT INJURY; KINESTHESIA; MECHANORECEPTOR; MODEL; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BRAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 33745256437     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.01.063     Document Type: Article

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