Physiological knee laxity during pubertal growth

Bulletin of the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 325-329

  Falciglia, Francesco ^a   Guzzanti, Vincenzo ^a,b   Di Ciommo, Vincenzo ^a   Poggiaroni, Alessia ^c  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTHROMETER; ARTICLE; CARTER AND WILKINSON TEST; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT LAXITY; JOINT MOBILITY; KNEE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE TRAINING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TANNER STAGE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTHROMETRY, ARTICULAR; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE JOINT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PUBERTY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 74049141804     PISSN: 19369719     EISSN: 19369727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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