Relationship between muscle volume and muscle torque of the hamstrings after anterior cruciate ligament lesion

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2270-2274

  Konishi, Yu ^a,b   Kinugasa, Ryuta ^b,c   Oda, Toshiaki ^d,e   Tsukazaki, Satoshi ^f   Fukubayashi, Toru ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HYOGO UNIVERSITY OF TEACHER EDUCATION   (Japan)

^e RIKEN   (Japan)

^f JPN Self Defense Forces Hospital Yokosuka   (Japan)

Author keywords

ACL injury; Hamstrings; Muscle volume; Muscle weakness; Torque

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INJURY; KNEE INJURY; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TORQUE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TORQUE;

EID: 84867842200     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-012-1888-7     Document Type: Article

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