Reliability of knee muscle strength measurements with manual dynamometry in patients with severe knee arthritis;Reproducibilidad de la medida de la fuerza muscular de la rodilla mediante dinamometría manual en pacientes con gonartrosis grave

Rehabilitacion

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 218-222

  Belmonte Martinez R ^a   Samitier Pastor, C B ^a   Muniesa Portoles J M ^a   Marco Navarro, E ^a   Escalada Recto, F ^a   Duarte Oller, E ^a  

^a Del Mar University   (Spain)

Author keywords

knee; muscle strength; osteoarthritis; reliability of results

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350503209     PISSN: 00487120     EISSN: 15783278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-7120(09)72530-7     Document Type: Article

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