Acute leg length discrepancy causes increased Vo2

Gait and Posture

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 108-111

  Boone, Tommy ^a   Mammons, Raymond R ^a  

^a School of Health Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac output; Leg length discrepancy; Oxygen consumption

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG LENGTH; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WALKING;

EID: 0029883145     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0966-6362(95)01038-6     Document Type: Article

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