Lower-extremity strength profiles in spastic cerebral palsy

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 100-107

  Wiley, Mary Elizabeth ^a   Damiano, Diane L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETRY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HAMSTRING; HEMIPLEGIA; HIP; HUMAN; ILIOPSOAS MUSCLE; LEG; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPASTICITY; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

EID: 0031939536     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1998.tb15369.x     Document Type: Article

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