Baby carriage: Infants walking with loads

Child Development

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 664-680

  Garciaguirre, Jessie S ^a   Adolph, Karen E ^a   Shrout, Patrick E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; INFANT; KINESTHESIA; MALE; ORIENTATION; VIDEORECORDING; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; INFANT; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; ORIENTATION; VIDEO RECORDING; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33947547655     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01020.x     Document Type: Article

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