Anterior cruciate ligament injury: Compensation during gait using hamstring muscle activity

Open Biomedical Engineering Journal

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 99-106

  Catalfamo, Paola Formento ^a   Aguiar, Gerardo ^a   Curi, Jorge ^a   Braidot, Ariel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ENTRE RÍOS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament; Hamstring; Tibial translation

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; CONTACT FORCES; GAIT CYCLES; HAMSTRING; ISOMETRIC FORCE; JOINT CONTACT FORCES; KNEE LIGAMENTS; MUSCLE ACTIVITIES; PARTIAL COMPENSATION; PATELLOFEMORAL; PATELLOFEMORAL JOINT; TIBIAL TRANSLATION; TIBIOFEMORAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; LIGAMENTS; MUSCLE; RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; ARTICLE; GAIT; HAMSTRING; JOINT PRESSURE; KNEE FUNCTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PATELLOFEMORAL JOINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 78249285946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18741207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874120701004010099     Document Type: Article

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