The effect of community-prescribed ankle-foot orthoses on gait parameters in children with spastic cerebral palsy

Journal of Children's Orthopaedics

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 325-332

  Hayek, Shlomo ^a,b   Hemo, Yoram ^a,b   Chamis, Sam ^a,b   Bat, Reuven ^a,b   Segev, Eitan ^a,b   Wientroub, Shlomo ^a,b   Yzhar, Ziva ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ankle foot orthosis (AFOs); Cerebral palsy; Community health services; Gait analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749075060     PISSN: 18632521     EISSN: 18632548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11832-007-0055-z     Document Type: Article

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