Gastrocnemius-soleus muscle tendon unit changes over the first 12 weeks of adjusted age in infants born preterm

Physical Therapy

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 136-148

  Grant Beuttler, Marybeth ^a   Palisano, Robert J ^b   Miller, Debra P ^c   Wagner, Barbara Reddien ^c   Heriza, Carolyn B ^d   Shewokis, Patricia A ^b  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON   (United States)

^d ROCKY MOUNTAIN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE JOINT; ARTHROMETRY, ARTICULAR; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL DEVELOPMENT; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TENDONS;

EID: 58849139262     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20070306     Document Type: Article

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