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Beneficial effects of a gait used while wearing a kimono to decrease the knee adduction moment in healthy adults

The knee adduction moment (KAM) relates to medial knee osteoarthritis (OA). Several gait modifications to reduce the KAM for the prevention of knee OA have been studied. Most of the modifications, however, involve voluntary changes in leg alignment. Here we investigated the biomechanical effects for...

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Autores principales: Ota, Susumu, Ogawa, Yukari, Ota, Hiroki, Fujiwara, Tomoya, Sugiyama, Tadashi, Ochi, Akira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5480874/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28640896
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179260

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