Effect of knee flexion angle on ground reaction forces, knee moments and muscle co-contraction during an impact-like deceleration landing: Implications for the non-contact mechanism of ACL injury

Knee

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 291-295

  Podraza, Jeffery T ^a,b   White, Scott C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b DAEMEN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground reaction forces; Impact like deceleration; Knee moments; Muscle co contraction; Non contact ACL injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT STABILITY; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KNEE; KNEE INJURIES; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; RUPTURE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RUPTURE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 77953703147     PISSN: 09680160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knee.2010.02.013     Document Type: Article

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