Kinematic compensations as children reciprocally ascend and descend stairs with unilateral and bilateral solid AFOs

Gait and Posture

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 199-206

  Nahorniak, Maureen T ^a   Gorton III, George E ^a   Gannotti, Mary E ^a   Masso, Peter D ^a  

^a SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Gait analysis; Kinematics; Orthotic; Stair climbing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSITION; CHILD; CLIMBING; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; GAIT; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOE;

ANKLE JOINT; GAIT; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; TARSAL JOINTS;

EID: 0033050962     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-6362(99)00014-4     Document Type: Article

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