Role of stretching in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

Europa Medicophysica

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 560-561

  Rose, K J ^a,b   Burns, J ^a   Ouvrier, R A ^a  

^a University of Sydney   (Australia)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; LETTER; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHOE; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; ANKLE; BIOMECHANICS; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; POSTURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SHOES;

EID: 39049160190     PISSN: 00142573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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