Classification of equinus in ambulatory children with cerebral palsy - Discrimination between dynamic tightness and fixed contracture

Gait and Posture

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 273-279

  Zwick, Ernst B ^a   Leistritz, Lutz ^b   Milleit, Berko ^b   Saraph, Vinay ^a   Zwick, Gertrude ^a   Galicki, Miroslaw ^b   Witte, Herbert ^b   Steinwender, Gerhardt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; Classification; Dynamic neural network; Equinus; Gait

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EVALUATION; GAIT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PES EQUINUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 17444412689     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2003.10.002     Document Type: Article

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