Relationship between intensity of quadriceps muscle Neuromuscular electrical stimulation and strength recovery after total knee arthroplasty

Physical Therapy

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1187-1196

  Stevens Lapsley, Jennifer E ^a   Balter, Jaclyn E ^a   Wolfe, Pamela ^b   Eckhoff, Donald G ^a   Schwartz, Robert S ^b   Schenkman, Margaret ^a   Kohrt, Wendy M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DYNAMOMETER; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE FATIGUE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TORQUE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE STRENGTH DYNAMOMETER; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TORQUE;

EID: 84865725838     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20110479     Document Type: Article

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