Experimental joint contracture correction with low torque-long duration repeated stretching

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 456, Issue , 2007, Pages 70-78

  Usuba, M ^a,d   Akai, M ^b   Shirasaki, Y ^c   Miyakawa, S ^d  

^a TSUKUBA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b National Rehabilitation Center Tokorozawa   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT CONTRACTURE; KNEE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANGE OF MOTION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; STRETCHING; TORQUE; ANIMAL; CONTRACTURE; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CONTRACTURE; MALE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS; TORQUE;

EID: 34247473898     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BLO.0b013e31803212bf     Document Type: Article

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