Quantitative measurement of the pivot shift, reliability, and clinical applications

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 686-691

  Kuroda, Ryosuke ^a   Hoshino, Yuichi ^a,b   Araki, Daisuke ^a   Nishizawa, Yuichiro ^a   Nagamune, Kouki ^c   Matsumoto, Tomoyuki ^a   Kubo, Seiji ^a   Matsushita, Takehiko ^a   Kurosaka, Masahiro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

ACL injury; Dynamic instability; Pivot shift test; Rotatory knee laxity

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE INJURY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW;

ACCELERATION; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; BIOMECHANICS; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE INJURIES; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84858751909     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-011-1849-6     Document Type: Review

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