Mechanical Alterations of Rabbit Achilles' Tendon After Immobilization Correlate With Bone Mineral Density But Not With Magnetic Resonance or Ultrasound Imaging

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1720-1726

  Trudel, Guy ^a   Koike, Yoichi ^a   Ramachandran, Nanthan ^a   Doherty, Geoff ^a   Dinh, Laurent ^b   Lecompte, Martin ^a   Uhthoff, Hans K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Achilles tendon; Bone mineral density; Hindlimb immobilization; Magnetic resonance imaging; Rabbits; Rehabilitation; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE DENSITY; CALCANEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; LEG; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PHYSICAL STRESS; RABBIT; RIGIDITY;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RABBITS;

EID: 36448946862     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.07.034     Document Type: Article

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