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Assessments of loads in the knee joint

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A method of gait analysis was used to estimate the loads in the knee joint. An analysis was made of the repeatability of the measurements for a group of 72 patients. Data from 418 patients were reviewed to show the variation with coronal angle of the knee of the loading.

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Johnson, F., Scarrow, P. & Waugh, W. Assessments of loads in the knee joint. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 19, 237–243 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02442721

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