Can ultrasound measurements of muscle thickness be used to measure the size of individual quadriceps muscles in people with patellofemoral pain?

Physical Therapy in Sport

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 45-52

  Giles, Lachlan S ^a   Webster, Kate E ^a   McClelland, Jodie A ^a   Cook, Jill ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Measurement; Validity; VMO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE THICKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATELLOFEMORAL PAIN SYNDROME; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; VALIDITY; VASTUS INTERMEDIUS MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE; VASTUS MEDIALIS OBLIQUE MUSCLE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VALIDATION STUDY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATELLOFEMORAL PAIN SYNDROME; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920926954     PISSN: 1466853X     EISSN: 18731600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ptsp.2014.04.002     Document Type: Article

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