Anterior cruciate ligament fatigue failures in knees subjected to repeated simulated pivot landings

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1058-1066

  Lipps, David B ^a   Wojtys, Edward M ^b   Ashton Miller, James A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament; Fatigue life; Morphology; Pivot landing; Rupture

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BODY WEIGHT; CADAVER; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; TORQUE; ARTICLE; FATIGUE LIFE; HISTOLOGY; INJURY; MORPHOLOGY; PIVOT LANDING; RUPTURE;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BODY WEIGHT; CADAVER; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TORQUE;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; FATIGUE LIFE; MORPHOLOGY; PIVOT LANDING; RUPTURE;

EID: 84879487338     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546513477836     Document Type: Article

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