Weightbearing and nonweightbearing ankle dorsiflexion range of motion: Are we measuring the same thing?

Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 406-411

  Rabin, Alon ^a   Kozol, Zvi ^a  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 84866626701     PISSN: 87507315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7547/1020406     Document Type: Article

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