Effects of exercise intervention on knee morphology in middle-aged women: A longitudinal analysis using magnetic resonance imaging

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-72

  Cotofana, S ^a,c   Ring Dimitriou, S ^b   Hudelmaier, M ^a,c   Himmer, M ^a   Wirth, W ^c   Sanger A M ^b   Eckstein, F ^a,c  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c Chondrometrics GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cartilage; Functional adaptation; Joint; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; AUTOGENIC TRAINING; CARTILAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE TRAINING; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESISTANCE TRAINING; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENDURANCE; KNEE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE; KNEE JOINT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RESISTANCE TRAINING;

EID: 77953799146     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000289816     Document Type: Article

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