Knee anterior laxity: A risk factor for traumatic knee injury among sportswomen?

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 823-833

  Vauhnik, Renata ^a,b,c   Morrissey, Matthew C ^b   Rutherford, Olga M ^b   Turk, Zmago ^d   Pilih, Iztok A ^c,d   Pohar, Maja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Arthron Institute for Joint and Sports Injuries   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Arthrometer; Female athletes; Logistic regression; Prediction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE; KNEE INJURY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RISK FACTOR; SPORT INJURY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE INJURIES; KNEE JOINT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 50849144030     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-008-0559-1     Document Type: Article

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