Plantar pressure reduction in an incremental weight-bearing system

Physical Therapy

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 410-416

  Flynn, Timothy W ^a   Canavan, Paul K ^a   Cavanagh, Peter R ^a   Chiang, Jin Hsien ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Gait; Ground reaction force; Harness supported treadmill ambulation; Plantar pressure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOT SOLE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RUNNING; TECHNICAL AID; TREADMILL; WALKING SPEED; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 0030951689     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/77.4.410     Document Type: Article

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