Effects of virtual reality training on gait biomechanics of individuals post-stroke

Gait and Posture

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 433-437

  Mirelman, Anat ^a,b,c   Patritti, Benjamin L ^c   Bonato, Paolo ^c,d   Deutsch, Judith E ^b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^d HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gait; Kinematics; Kinetics; Rehabilitation; Stroke; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL TRAINING; GAIT; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REHABILITATION CARE; ROBOTICS; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; THERAPY EFFECT; VIRTUAL REALITY; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; ROBOTICS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STROKE;

EID: 77951208801     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.01.016     Document Type: Article

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