Comments on "Stair climbing is more critical than walking in pre-clinical assessment of primary stability in cementless THA in vitro" by Jean-Pierre Kassi, Markus O. Heller, Ulrich Stoeckle, Carsten Perka, Georg N. Duda, Published on J. Biomechanics 2005; 38: 1143-1154

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 3085-3087

  Cristofolini, Luca ^a,b   Viceconti, Marco ^a  

^a RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMBING; JOINT STABILITY; LETTER; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; WALKING;

CEMENTATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAIT; HIP JOINT; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROGNOSIS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33751309109     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2006.09.015     Document Type: Letter

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