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Manual Muscle Testing: A Method of Measuring Extremity Muscle Strength Applied to Critically Ill Patients
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Manual Muscle Testing: A Method of Measuring Extremity Muscle Strength Applied to Critically Ill Patients

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Muscle assessment technique; examination of the knee muscles; extenders

I CASTILLO ODENA

    Prensa Medica Argentina
    |October 29, 2010
    PubMed
    Abstract

    No abstract available in PubMed .

    Keywords:
    MUSCLES/examination

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