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Muscle performance, body fat, pain and function in the elderly with arthritis

OBJECTIVE: To correlate muscule performance, body composition, pain and joint function in elderly people with gonarthrosis. METHOD: 21 elderly patients were submitted to bioelectrical impedance analysis, dynamometry associated with electromyographic (EMG) evaluation of isometric knee extension, in a...

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Autores principales: dos Santos, Wagner Teixeira, Rodrigues, Erika de Carvalho, Mainenti, Míriam Raquel Meira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Ortopedia e Traumatologia 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3952873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24644422
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1413-78522014000100010