title: The locomotor system as seen in Brazilian scientific journals: a mini review.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To make recent selected publications on the locomotor system available to the readership of Clinics.
  
  
  METHODS
  A general survey of articles published in selected Brazilian journals was inspected and 91 articles were critically analyzed. They were categorized and briefly described. A final summary of themes is reproduced here.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Papers fall into two main categories: articular and muscular pathology and therapeutics; medical sports. A number of papers are not classifiable under these headings.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The locomotor system has been extensively analyzed and discussed in the Brazilian scientific press in recent years. Not surprisingly, knee and ankle pathology, soccer and running are dominant themes.
authors.affiliation: Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. mrsilva36@hcnet.usp.br
authors.forename: Mauricio Rocha E
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Silva
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D001938:Brazil; D006801:Humans; D009141:Musculoskeletal System; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*