Community walking activity in neurological disorders with leg weakness

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 359-362

  Busse, Monica E ^a   Wiles, C M ^a   Van Deursen, R W M ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GAIT; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT MOBILITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERMEAD MOBILITY INDEX; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDING; TIME; WALKING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; CAUSALITY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 33644511087     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2005.074294     Document Type: Article

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