Effects of one-point and four-point canes on balance and weight distribution in patients with hemiparesis

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 141-148

  Laufer, Yocheved ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY DISTRIBUTION; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GERIATRIC HOSPITAL; HEEL; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LEG; MALE; PRESSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDING; STROKE; WALKING; WALKING AID; WEIGHT BEARING;

AGED; BODY WEIGHT; CANES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0036188484     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269215502cr481oa     Document Type: Article

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