Adjustments in gait symmetry with walking speed in trans-femoral and trans-tibial amputees

Gait and Posture

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 142-151

  Nolan, Lee ^a,c   Wit, Andrzej ^b   Dudziñski, Krzysztof ^b   Lees, Adrian ^a   Lake, Mark ^a   Wychowañski, Michał ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b JÓZEF PI SUDSKI UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN WARSAW   (Poland)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Amputee gait; Asymmetry; Walking speed

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FEMUR; GAIT; HUMAN; LIMB; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; STANDING; TIBIA; WALKING SPEED;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AMPUTATION; AMPUTEES; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BIOMECHANICS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FEMUR; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PROBABILITY; PROSTHESIS FITTING; TIBIA; WALKING;

EID: 0347297175     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-6362(02)00066-8     Document Type: Article

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