Natural history of flexed knee gait in diplegic cerebral palsy evaluated by gait analysis in children who have not had surgery

Gait and Posture

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 351-354

  Rose, G E ^a   Lightbody, K A ^b   Ferguson, R G ^b   Walsh, J C ^a   Robb, J E ^a  

^a Anderson Gait Analysis Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; Diplegia; Gait analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT; HAMSTRING; HIP; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; STANDING; WALKING SPEED;

ADOLESCENT; BIOMECHANICS; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MUSCLE SPASTICITY;

EID: 76749164280     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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