Relationships between lower extremity alignment and the quadriceps angle

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 201-206

  Nguyen, Anh Dung ^a   Boling, Michelle C ^b   Levine, Beverly ^a   Shultz, Sandra J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ANTEVERSION; FEMUR; FOOT; GENU RECURVATUM; GONIOMETRY; HIP; HUMAN; KNEE; LEG LENGTH; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NAVICULAR DROP; PELVIC ANGLE; PELVIC TILT; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q ANGLE; TIBIA; TIBIA TORSION; TIBIOFEMORAL ANGLE; TILTING; VALGUS KNEE;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FOOT; HIP; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; PELVIS; POSTURE; TIBIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651121806     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSM.0b013e3181a38fb1     Document Type: Article

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