Responsiveness of two methods for measuring foot and ankle volume

Foot and Ankle International

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 826-832

  Henschke, Nicholas ^a   Boland, Robert Anthony ^a,b   Adams, Roger David ^a  

^a School of Physiotherapy ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ankle; Swelling; Tape; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE VOLUME; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY POSITION; BONE SWELLING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FIGURE OF EIGHT METHOD; FOOT VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VOLUMETRY; WATER DISPLACEMENT METHOD;

EID: 33749319738     PISSN: 10711007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107110070602701013     Document Type: Article

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