Gait pattern classification of healthy elderly men based on biomechanical data

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 579-586

  Watelain, Eric ^a,b   Barbier, Franck ^a   Allard, Paul ^a,c   Thevenon, André ^d   Angué, Jean Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE VALENCIENNES   (France)

^b Lab d'Etud de la Motricite Hum   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Gait families; Healthy elderly men; Kinetic parameters; Rehabilitation; Three dimensional analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELDERLY CARE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034059612     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/mr.2000.4415     Document Type: Article

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