Electromechanical delay of the knee flexor muscles after harvesting the hamstrings for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 288-293

  Ristanis, Stavros ^a   Tsepis, Elias ^b   Giotis, Dimitrios ^a   Zampeli, Franceska ^a   Stergiou, Nicholas ^c,d   Georgoulis, Anastasios D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ACL reconstruction; electromechanical delay; electromyography; fatigue; hamstrings; muscle synchronization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROMECHANICAL DELAY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GRACILIS MUSCLE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; KNEE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TORQUE; ADOLESCENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KNEE INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE INJURIES; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960215554     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: 15363724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSM.0b013e31821f5b4f     Document Type: Article

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