Anterior cruciate ligament deficiency causes brain plasticity: A functional MRI study

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2419-2426

  Kapreli, Eleni ^a,b   Athanasopoulos, Spyros ^a   Gliatis, John ^c   Papathanasiou, Matilda ^a   Peeters, Ronald ^d   Strimpakos, Nikolaos ^b   Van Hecke, Paul ^d   Gouliamos, Athanasios ^a   Sunaert, Stefan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b TEI of Lamia ^*  (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) deficiency; Central nervous system; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Noncopers; Plasticity; Reorganization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73249135911     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546509343201     Document Type: Article

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