Keep on your toes: Gait initiation from toe-standing

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 393-401

  Nolan, Lee ^a   Kerrigan, D Casey ^b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Gait initiation; Rehabilitation; Toe walking

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE; NEUROLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

MOTOR NEURONS;

GAIT ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAIT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; STANDING; TOE; WALKING;

EID: 0037368403     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(02)00429-3     Document Type: Article

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