Hamstring Strength Recovery After Hamstring Tendon Harvest for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Comparison Between Graft Types

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 462-469

  Ardern, Clare L ^a   Webster, Kate E ^a   Taylor, Nicholas F ^a   Feller, Julian A ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRACILIS MUSCLE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; SPORT; STANDING; TENDON GRAFT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TENDONS; TORQUE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950059314     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2009.08.018     Document Type: Article

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