Frontal-plane gait mechanics in people with medial knee osteoarthritis are different from those in people with lateral knee osteoarthritis

Physical Therapy

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1235-1243

  Butler, Robert J ^a   Barrios, Joaquin A ^b   Royer, Todd ^c   Davis, Irene S ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE;

EID: 80053194564     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20100324     Document Type: Article

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