Clinical evaluations of dorsiflexion assist controlled by spring ankle- foot orthosis for hemiplegic patients

Journal of UOEH

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-9

  Hachisuka, Kenji ^a   Ogata, Hajime ^a   Tajima, Fumihiro ^a   Ohmine, Saburo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ankle foot orthosis; DACS AFO; Hemiplegia; Shoehorn type

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GAIT; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; ORTHOSIS; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 0031894139     PISSN: 0387821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7888/juoeh.20.1     Document Type: Article

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