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CA Oatis, PhD, PT, is Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Beaver College, Glenside, PA 19038-3295

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

The following commentary is on parts I and II of "In Vivo Acetabular Contact Pressures During Rehabilitation."

The authors of these two articles have presented an interesting paradigm for investigating some of the implicit assumptions on which we base much of our clinical practice as well as a provocative model for clinical studies. This study was based on limited data from a single subject. These data were derived from the sustained work of a team with expertise and resources rarely available to the clinical investigator or clinician in physical therapy. Consequently, the physical therapist in a more traditional clinical setting may be tempted to dismiss the study and the results as being so far from the mainstream of physical therapy as to be irrelevant, or, conversely, the therapist may be so impressed by the sophisticated technology that treatment protocols will be revised as suggested by Strickland et al....

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In Vivo Acetabular Contact Pressures During Rehabilitation, Part I: Acute Phase

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