Bone quality and muscle strength in female athletes with lower limb stress fractures

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2110-2119

  Schnackenburg, Katharina E ^a   MacDonald, Heather M ^b,c   Ferber, Reed ^a   Wiley, J Preston ^a   Boyd, Steven K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

bone microarchitecture; fatigue fracture; finite element analysis; HR PQCT; muscle function

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BONE; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; GENERAL DEVICE; HUMAN; LEG INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOGRAPHY; SPORT INJURY; STRESS FRACTURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADOLESCENT; ATHLETES; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, STRESS; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054948765     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31821f8634     Document Type: Article

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