Gait Analysis Methods for Rodent Models of Osteoarthritis

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Jacobs, Brittany Y ^a   Kloefkorn, Heidi E ^a   Allen, Kyle D ^a,b  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral Analysis; Gait Analysis; Osteoarthritis; Pain; Rodent Preclinical Models

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTHRALGIA; BIOMECHANICS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT PRESSURE; JOINT STABILITY; KINEMATICS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE PAIN; LIMB INJURY; MONARTHRITIS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; REVIEW; RODENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WALKING SPEED; WEIGHT BEARING; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; EXPERIMENTAL ARTHRITIS; GAIT;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, EXPERIMENTAL; GAIT; HUMANS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84906430831     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-014-0456-x     Document Type: Review

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