High inter-specimen variability of baseline data for the tibio-talar contact area

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 117-120

  Matricali, Giovanni A ^a   Bartels, Ward ^a   Labey, Luc ^a   Dereymaeker, Greta Ph E ^a   Luyten, Frank P ^a   Sloten, Jos Vander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Articular incongruities; Biomechanics; Inter specimen variability; Subject specific model; Tibio talar contact area

Indexed keywords

ARTICULAR INCONGRUITIES; BASELINE DATUMS; BASIC CHARACTERISTICS; BIOMECHANICAL CHANGES; BIOMECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATIONS; CONTACT AREAS; CONTACT CHARACTERISTICS; DATA SETS; DIFFERENT EFFECTS; HIGH VARIABILITIES; INTER-SPECIMEN VARIABILITY; PRESSURE SENSITIVES; SINGLE SPECIMENS; SUBJECT SPECIFIC MODEL; SUBJECT SPECIFIC MODELS; TIBIO-TALAR CONTACT AREA;

BIOMECHANICS;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TALUS; TIBIA;

ANKLE JOINT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; PRESSURE; REFERENCE VALUES; TALUS; TIBIA; WEIGHTS AND MEASURES;

EID: 57349099105     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2008.10.006     Document Type: Article

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