Weight-bearing shifts of hemiparetic and healthy adults upon stepping an stairs of various heights

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 125-129

  Laufer, Yocheved ^a   Dickstein, Ruth ^c   Resnik, Sarit ^b   Marcovitz, Emanuel ^a  

^a Flieman Geriatric Rehabilitation Hospital   (Israel)

^b Maccabi Clinic   (Israel)

^c Flieman Hospital ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLIMBING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; STANDING; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 0034023798     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/026921500674231381     Document Type: Article

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