Kinematics of the anterior cruciate ligament during gait

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1475-1482

  Wu, Jia Lin ^a,b   Hosseini, Ali ^a,c   Kozanek, Michal ^a   Gadikota, Hemanth R ^a   Gill IV, Thomas J ^a   Li, Guoan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

ACL bundles; anterior cruciate ligament (ACL); gait; in vivo knee kinematics

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FEMUR; GAIT; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; TIBIA;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FEMUR; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; TIBIA;

EID: 77954337202     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546510364240     Document Type: Article

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