Effects of loading the unaffected limb for one session of locomotor training on laboratory measures of gait in stroke

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 762-768

  Regnaux, J P ^a,b   Pradon, D ^a   Roche, N ^a   Robertson, J ^a   Bussel, B ^a   Dobkin, B ^b  

^a RAYMOND POINCARÉ HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensations; Locomotor training; Restraint; Stroke; Walking

Indexed keywords

GAIT ANALYSIS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; KINEMATICS; WALKING AIDS;

COMPENSATORY STRATEGIES; HEMIPARETIC LEG; LOCOMOTOR TRAINING;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HEMIPARESIS; HIP; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; LOCOMOTOR TRAINING; MALE; MODEL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; TRAINING; TREADMILL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING; WALKING AID; WALKING SPEED; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 44649097062     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2008.01.011     Document Type: Article

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