Risk assessment of the onset of Osgood-Schlatter disease using kinetic analysis of various motions in sports.

Some studies have listed motions that may cause Osgood-Schlatter disease, but none have quantitatively assessed the load on the tibial tubercle by such motions.To quantitatively identify the load on the tibial tubercle through a biomechanical approach using various motions that may cause Osgood-Schl...

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Main Authors: Gento Itoh, Hideyuki Ishii, Haruyasu Kato, Yasuharu Nagano, Hiroteru Hayashi, Hiroki Funasaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5757930?pdf=render