Muscle Impairments in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis

Sports Health

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 284-292

  Alnahdi, Ali H ^a,b   Zeni, Joseph A ^a   Snyder Mackler, Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Exercise; Functional limitation; Impairment; Knee; Osteoarthritis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863335553     PISSN: 19417381     EISSN: 19410921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1941738112445726     Document Type: Article

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