Improving calf muscle strength in patients with spastic equinovarus deformity by transfer of the long toe flexors to the os calcis

Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 163-175

  Keenan, Mary Ann E ^b   Lee, Guy A ^c   Tuckman, Alan S ^c   Esquenazi, Alberto ^a  

^a MOSS REHABILITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Ambulation; Paresis; Tendon transfer; Upper motor neuron syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCANEUS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOOT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; ORTHOTICS; PES EQUINOVARUS; SCHOOL CHILD; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TENDON TRANSFER;

EID: 0032959055     PISSN: 08859701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001199-199904000-00006     Document Type: Article

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