Four weeks of mobility after 8 weeks of immobility fails to restore normal motion: A preliminary study

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 466, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1239-1244

  Trudel, Guy ^a   Zhou, Jian ^a   Uhthoff, Hans K ^a   Laneuville, Odette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT CONTRACTURE; JOINT MOBILITY; KNEE FUNCTION; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TORQUE; ANIMAL; CONTRACTURE; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE MODEL; JOINT CAPSULE; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KNEE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; CONTRACTURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT CAPSULE; KNEE JOINT; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS; TORQUE;

EID: 44649132602     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-008-0181-z     Document Type: Article

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