Passive dorsiflexion flexibility after cast immobilization for ankle fracture

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 456, Issue , 2007, Pages 65-69

  Nightingale, Elizabeth J ^a   Moseley, Anne M ^a   Herbert, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE FRACTURE; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; CAST REMOVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT CONTRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PLASTER CAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORQUE; ANKLE INJURY; CONVALESCENCE; FRACTURE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME;

ANKLE INJURIES; CASTS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34247527808     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BLO.0b013e31802fc161     Document Type: Article

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