High Failure Rates When Avoiding Obstacles During Treadmill Walking in Patients With a Transtibial Amputation

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1115-1122

  Hofstad, Cheriel J ^a,c   van der Linde, Harmen ^a   Nienhuis, Bart ^a   Weerdesteyn, Vivian ^a,c   Duysens, Jacques ^a,b,c   Geurts, Alexander C ^a,b,c  

^a SINT MAARTENSKLINIEK   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Institute for Fundamental and Clinical Human Movement Sciences   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artificial limbs; Gait; Leg prosthesis; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG PROSTHESIS; MALE; REHABILITATION CENTER; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING;

ADULT; AMPUTEES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIBIA; WALKING;

EID: 33746316239     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2006.04.009     Document Type: Article

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