Knee angle reproduction tests: influences of body orientation, movement direction and limb dominance.
Applying joint position sense tests under different test conditions may introduce reproduction error bias, which can result in different therapeutic consequences. This study investigated the effects of body orientation, movement direction, and limb dominance on the active knee angle reproduction err...
| Published in: | International Journal of Sports Medicine Vol. 46; no. 6; pp. 422 - 430 |
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Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart
Jun2025
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