The Effect of Q Angle on Ankle Sprain Occurrence

Foot & Ankle Specialist

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-26

  Pefanis, Nikolaos ^a   Papaharalampous, Xenofon ^a   Tsiganos, Georgios ^a   Papadakou, Eugenia ^b   Baltopoulos, Panagiotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

anatomic alignment; ankle sprain; body mass index; body mass moment of inertia; injury risk factors; structural measures

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANKLE INJURY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BASKETBALL; HUMAN; INJURY; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; VOLLEYBALL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANKLE INJURIES; ANTHROPOMETRY; BASKETBALL; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE JOINT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCCER; SPRAINS AND STRAINS; VOLLEYBALL;

EID: 75349096665     PISSN: 19386400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1938640008330769     Document Type: Article

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