Surgery of Knee Replacement
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Complete knee replacement surgery
In normal activities such as walking, rnning, kneeling, climbing stairs and gettmg in and out of chairs the loa pu OI.the human knee joint can exceed five times the weight of the body. Nowadays large numbers of people make ! urtrer d mands on the knee in participatmg 1_n sucli sport as football, tennis and long distance runnng. It is no wonder that many people go mto their later years with o...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/003591577606900206