New insights into anterior cruciate ligament deficiency and reconstruction through the assessment of knee kinematic variability in terms of nonlinear dynamics

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1620-1633

  Decker, Leslie M ^a   Moraiti, Constantina ^b   Stergiou, Nicholas ^a,c   Georgoulis, Anastasios D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Diagnosis; Movement variability; Nonlinear analysis; Prognosis; Walking

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; BIOMECHANICS; GAIT; HUMAN; INJURY; KNEE; KNEE INJURY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; BIOMECHANICS; GAIT; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; KNEE JOINT; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 80052873859     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-011-1484-2     Document Type: Review

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