Muscular lower leg asymmetry in middle-aged people

Foot and Ankle International

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 242-249

  Valderrabano, Victor ^a,b,c   Nigg, Benno M ^a,b   Hintermann, Beat ^a,c   Goepfert, Beat ^a,d   Dick, Walter ^a,c   Frank, Cyril B ^a,b   Herzog, Walter ^a,b   Von Tscharner, Vinzenz ^a,b  

^a University of Calgary ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ankle; Force; Lower Leg; Muscle; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; DYSMETRIA; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MOVEMENT; LOWER LEG; LOWER LEG ASYMMETRY; MALE; MUSCLE MALFORMATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERONEUS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TORQUE;

EID: 33846596655     PISSN: 10711007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3113/FAI.2007.0242     Document Type: Article

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