Dynamic Resources Used in Ambulation by Children with Spastic Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy: Relationship to Kinematics, Energetics, and Asymmetries

Physical Therapy

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 344-354

  Fonseca, Sérgio T ^a   Holt, Kenneth G ^b,c   Fetters, Linda ^b   Saltzman, Elliot ^b,c,d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; Dynamic systems; Locomotion; Oscillatory models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENERGY YIELD; FEMALE; GAIT; HEMIPLEGIA; HEMIPLEGIC CEREBRAL PALSY; HUMAN; JOINT STIFFNESS; KINEMATICS; KINETIC ENERGY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MECHANICAL ENERGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; VERTICAL STIFFNESS; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 1642529619     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/84.4.344     Document Type: Article

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