Progression and direction of contractures of knee joints following spinal cord injury in the rat

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 37-44

  Moriyama, Hideki ^c   Yoshimura, Osamu ^a,d   Sunahori, Hitoshi ^c,e   Nitta, Haruko ^c   Imakita, Hidetaka ^c   Saka, Yukari ^c   Maejima, Hiroshi ^a   Tobimatsu, Yoshiko ^b,c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Hiroshima City Counseling Center   (Japan)

^e Hiroshima Prefectural Rehab Ctr   (Japan)

Author keywords

Articular; Contracture; Range of motion; Rats; Spinal cord injuries

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GONIOMETRY; HINDLIMB; JOINT CONTRACTURE; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT LIMITATION; KNEE DISEASE; KNEE FUNCTION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRACTURE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 5044228022     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.204.37     Document Type: Article

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