Response to balance perturbation: A strategy for pediatric assessment

Foot and Ankle Motion Analysis: Clinical Treatment and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 173-193

  Graf, Adam N ^a   Krzak, Joseph ^a   Harris, Gerald F ^a  

^a SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

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