Alignment of trans-tibial prostheses based on roll-over shape principles

Prosthetics and Orthotics International

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 89-99

  Hansen, Andrew H ^a   Meier, M R ^a   Sam, M ^a   Childress, D S ^a   Edwards, M L ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANKLE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXPERIMENTATION; FOOT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFECTION; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG INJURY; LEG PROSTHESIS; MALE;

EID: 0141921568     PISSN: 03093646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03093640308726664     Document Type: Article

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