The contact locations in the knee during high flexion

Knee

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 379-384

  Yildirim, Gokce ^a   Walker, Peter S ^a   Sussman Fort, Jon ^c   Aggarwal, Gaurav ^b   White, Brian ^a   Klein, Gregg R ^a  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Knee contact area; Knee high flexion; Knee rotation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT STRESS; FEMUR; FEMUR CONDYLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT STIFFNESS; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE POSITION; PATELLA; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q ANGLE; TIBIA;

CADAVER; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE JOINT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; ROTATION; TORQUE;

EID: 34548421850     PISSN: 09680160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knee.2007.06.007     Document Type: Article

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