Biomechanical assessment of gait in below-knee walking casts

Prosthetics and Orthotics International

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 142-151

  White, R ^a   Schuren, J ^b   Wardlaw, D ^c   Diamandopoulos, Z ^a   Anderson, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b 3M Deutschland GmbH   (Germany)

^c WOODEND HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASTER CAST; TECHNIQUE; WALKING AID; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 0032857771     PISSN: 03093646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03093649909071626     Document Type: Article

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