Clinical Biomechanics
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 21-28 , January 2000

Reliability of peroneal reaction time measurements

  • Stefan Benesch

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery of the Military Hospital, Ulm, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author
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  • Walter Pütz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Trauma Surgery of the Central Military Hospital, Koblenz, Germany
    • ,
  • Dieter Rosenbaum

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopedics, University of Münster, Germany
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  • Horst-Peter Becker

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery of the Military Hospital, Ulm, Germany

Received 9 September 1998 ,Accepted 9 April 1999.

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Clinical Biomechanics
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 21-28 , January 2000

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