Treatment of Jumper's knee: Promising short-term results in a pilot study using a new arthroscopic approach based on imaging findings

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 676-681

  Willberg, Lotta ^a   Sunding, Kerstin ^b   Öhberg, Lars ^c   Forssblad, Magnus ^a   Alfredson, Håkan ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b ST GÖRAN S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arthroscopy; Jumper's knee patellar tendinosis; Nerves; Treatment; Vessels

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONVALESCENCE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INNERVATION; KNEE; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATELLA LIGAMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT STUDY; TENDINITIS; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ARTHROSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT PROJECTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TENDINOPATHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 34247860818     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-006-0223-6     Document Type: Article

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