A unique foot-worn device for patients with degenerative meniscal tear

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 380-387

  Elbaz, Avi ^a   Beer, Yiftah ^b   Rath, Ehud ^c   Morag, Guy ^c   Segal, Ganit ^a   Debbi, Eytan M ^a   Wasser, Daniel ^a   Mor, Amit ^a   Debi, Ronen ^d  

^a AposTherapy Research Group   (Israel)

^b ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d BARZILAI MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gait; Meniscal tear; Osteoarthritis; Pain; Physical function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872664944     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-012-2026-2     Document Type: Article

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