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Prosthetics and Orthotics

Reliability, concurrent validity and minimal detectable change of the L test in patients with total knee arthroplasty

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Pages 3714-3718 | Received 09 May 2020, Accepted 31 Dec 2020, Published online: 15 Jan 2021

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