A lower-limb functional capacity test for enlistment into Swedish Armed Forces ranger units

Military Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1065-1070

  Larsson, Helena ^a,b   Harms Ringdahl, Karin ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Kristinehamn Garrison   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; FITNESS; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE DISEASE; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; STANDARD; SWEDEN; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33751112723     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.171.11.1065     Document Type: Article

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