Effects of unloading bracing on knee and hip joints for patients with medial compartment knee osteoarthritis

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 497-503

  Toriyama, Minoru ^a   Deie, Masataka ^a   Shimada, Noboru ^a   Otani, Takuya ^a   Shidahara, Hiroe ^a   Maejima, Hiroshi ^b   Moriyama, Hideki ^a   Shibuya, Hayatoshi ^a   Okuhara, Atsushi ^a   Ochi, Mitsuo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contralateral limb joints; Gait; Hip joint; Osteoarthritis; Unloading knee brace

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICAL EFFECTS; CONTRALATERAL LIMB JOINTS; FRONTAL PLANES; GAIT; HIP JOINT; HIP JOINTS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MEDIAL COMPARTMENT; OSTEOARTHRITIS; SAGITTAL PLANE; SPECIFIC TIME; STANCE PHASE; WHOLE BODY;

BIOMECHANICS; HIP PROSTHESES; KINEMATICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; UNLOADING;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

ADDUCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GAIT; HIP; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; KINEMATICS; KINETICS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; BRACES; FEMALE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TORQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 79955661520     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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