Associations of supported treadmill stepping with walking attainment in preterm and full-term infants

Physical Therapy

Volumn 89, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1215-1225

  Luo, Hong Ji ^a,b   Chen, Pei Shan ^c   Hsieh, Wu Shiun ^c   Lin, Kwan Hwa ^a,c   Lu, Tung Wu ^d   Chen, Wei J ^d   Jeng, Sun Fang ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPETENCE; COORDINATION; FOLLOW UP; HIP; HUMAN; INFANT; KNEE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMETER; PREMATURITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRAINING; TREADMILL; WALKING;

AGE FACTORS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LEG; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; WALKING;

EID: 70449659132     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20080369     Document Type: Article

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