Functional Assessment of Lower Extremities in Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1887-1890

  Braschinsky, Mark ^a   Parts, Kadri ^b   Maamägi, Heigo ^b   Gross Paju, Katrin ^b   Haldre, Sulev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b WEST TALLINN CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Gait; Muscle spasticity; Range of motion, articular; Rehabilitation; Spastic paraplegia, hereditary

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FLEXOR REFLEX; GAIT; GONIOMETRY; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HIP; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPASTICITY; WALKING; WALKING AID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA, HEREDITARY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 70449350804     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2009.06.016     Document Type: Article

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