Associations between lower limb impairments, locomotor capacities and kinematic variables in the frontal plane during walking in adults with chronic stroke

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 259-264

  De Bujanda, Eva ^a,b   Nadeau, Sylvie ^a,b   Bourbonnais, Daniel ^a,b   Dickstein, Ruth ^c  

^a CRIR du Montreal metropolitain   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Balance; Frontal kinematic; Gait; Stroke; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GAIT; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LEG INJURY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; PELVIS; PILOT STUDY; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SHOULDER; SPASTICITY; STANDARDIZATION; STROKE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VIDEORECORDING; WALKING;

ADULT; AGED; BIOMECHANICS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PARESIS; PELVIS; SHOULDER; WALKING;

EID: 0242442026     PISSN: 16501977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16501970310012428     Document Type: Article

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