The effect of prosthetic mass properties on the gait of transtibial amputees - A mathematical model

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 694-704

  Selles, Ruud W ^a   Bussmann, Johannes B J ^a   Van Soest, A J Knoek ^b   Stam, Henk J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION STUMP; ANKLE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTATION; FOOT; GAIT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG MOVEMENT; LEG MUSCLE; LEG PROSTHESIS; LOWER LEG; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MUSCLE FORCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOE; WEIGHT;

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; AMPUTATION STUMPS; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; GAIT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; TIBIA;

EID: 3042772371     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280410001704296     Document Type: Article

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