Clinical Biomechanics
Volume 15, Issue 8 , Pages 619-623 , October 2000

The manual stress test may not be sufficient to differentiate ankle ligament injuries

Received 27 September 1999 ,Accepted 8 March 2000.

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Clinical Biomechanics
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