Lessons learned from the last 20 years of ACL-related in vivo-biomechanics research of the knee joint

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 755-766

  Pappas, Evangelos ^a   Zampeli, Franceska ^b   Xergia, Sofia A ^b   Georgoulis, Anastasios D ^b  

^a Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus)   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Internal rotation; Knee injury prevention; Rehabilitation; Sex differences; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875362577     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-012-1955-0     Document Type: Review

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