Biomechanical characteristics of the knee joint in female athletes during tasks associated with anterior cruciate ligament injury

Knee

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 153-158

  Nagano, Yasuharu ^a   Ida, Hirofumi ^b   Akai, Masami ^c   Fukubayashi, Toru ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

ACL injury; Injury mechanism; Knee kinematics; Prevention; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BIOMECHANICS; FALLING; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUMPING; KINEMATICS; KNEE FUNCTION; LIMB; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIBIA; TIBIA TORSION;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58649091517     PISSN: 09680160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knee.2008.10.012     Document Type: Article

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