Reproducibility of the walking patterns of normal young adults: Test-retest reliability of the walk ratio (step-length/step-rate)

Gait and Posture

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 225-227

  Sekiya, Noboru ^a   Nagasaki, Hiroshi ^b  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Reliability; Walk ratio; Walking pattern

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VELOCITY; WALKING;

EID: 0032079053     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-6362(98)00009-5     Document Type: Article

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