Gait symmetry improves in childhood-A 4-year follow-up of foot loading data

Gait and Posture

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 464-468

  Bosch, Kerstin ^a   Rosenbaum, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Foot; Gait symmetry; Infancy; Loading; Plantar pressure distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FOOT; FOOT LOADING; GAIT; HUMAN; INFANT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOT; GAIT; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; POSTURAL BALANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 78149467762     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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