Sensorimotor Deficits with Ankle Sprains and Chronic Ankle Instability

Clinics in Sports Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 353-370

  Hertel, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE INSTABILITY; ANKLE SPRAIN; BODY POSTURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE REFLEX; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROPRIOCEPTION; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX;

ANKLE INJURIES; ANKLE JOINT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; PROPRIOCEPTION; SPRAINS AND STRAINS;

EID: 43949093827     PISSN: 02785919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csm.2008.03.006     Document Type: Review

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