Early observations of the effects of lateral wedge orthoses on lower limb muscle length and potential for exacerbating spasticity

Prosthetics and Orthotics International

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 319-326

  Forghany, Saeed ^a,b   Jones, Richard ^b   Preece, Steve ^b   Nester, Chris ^b   Tyson, Sarah ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lateral wedge orthoses; musculoskeletal modelling; spasticity; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FOOT ORTHOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; KNEE; LIMB; MALE; MOTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORTHOTICS; PERONEUS MUSCLE; PRESCRIPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHOE; SPASTICITY; STROKE; TENDON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WALKING;

BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LOWER EXTREMITY; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PILOT PROJECTS; SHOES; SOFTWARE; WALKING;

EID: 77956141723     PISSN: 03093646     EISSN: 17461553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03093646.2010.504976     Document Type: Article

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