Influence of knee alignment on quadriceps cross-sectional area

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 2313-2317

  Sogabe, Akitoshi ^a,d   Mukai, Naoki ^b   Miyakawa, Shunpei ^b   Mesaki, Noboru ^b   Maeda, Kazuaki ^a   Yamamoto, Tadashi ^c   Gallagher, Philip M ^d   Schrager, Matt ^d   Fry, Andrew C ^d  

^a KONAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c HYOGO UNIVERSITY OF TEACHER EDUCATION   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Genu valgum; Genu varum; MRI; VM VL ratio

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; GENU VALGUM; GENU VARUM; KNEE JOINT; MR IMAGING; MRI; RECTUS FEMORIS; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; SUPINE POSITION; TRAINING PROGRAM; VASTUS MEDIALIS; VM/VL RATIO;

ALIGNMENT; CHEMICAL SHIFT; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

MUSCLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MUSCLE TRAINING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUPINE POSITION; THIGH; VALGUS KNEE; VARUS KNEE; VASTUS INTERMEDIUS MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 70349467755     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.06.022     Document Type: Article

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