Biomechanical effectiveness of a distraction-rotation knee brace in medial knee osteoarthritis: Preliminary results

Knee

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 710-716

  Laroche, Davy ^a,b   Morisset, Claire ^a,b   Fortunet, Clementine ^a   Gremeaux, Vincent ^a,b,c   Maillefert, Jean Francis ^a,b,c   Ornetti, Paul ^a,b,c  

^a DIJON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Université de Bourgogne   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Knee brace; Knee osteoarthritis; Locomotion

Indexed keywords

ADDUCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISTRACTION ROTATION KNEE BRACE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GAIT; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MALE; OPEN STUDY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; ROTATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WALKING SPEED; BIOMECHANICS; INTERVENTION STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BRACES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 84901482633     PISSN: 09680160     EISSN: 18735800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knee.2014.02.015     Document Type: Article

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