Reliability of the GAITRite® walkway system for the quantification of temporo-spatial parameters of gait in young and older people

Gait and Posture

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 20-25

  Menz, Hylton B ^a   Latt, Mark D ^a   Tiedemann, Anne ^a   Kwan, Marcella Mun San ^a   Lord, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing; Locomotion; Measurement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; TOE; VELOCITY; WALKING; AGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 2942525667     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-6362(03)00068-7     Document Type: Article

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