Should trunk movement or footfall parameters quantify gait asymmetry in chronic stroke patients?

Gait and Posture

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 552-558

  Hodt Billington, Caroline ^a   Helbostad, Jorunn L ^b   Moe Nilssen, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Gait asymmetry; Single support; Step length; Trunk movement

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; FOOTBALL; GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STROKE PATIENT;

ACCELERATION; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOOT; GAIT; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE; THORAX;

EID: 41549136016     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2007.07.015     Document Type: Article

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