Gait adaptations in low back pain patients with lumbar disc herniation: Trunk coordination and arm swing

European Spine Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 491-499

  Huang, Yun Peng ^b   Bruijn, Sjoerd M ^a   Lin, Jian Hua ^b   Meijer, Onno G ^a,b   Wu, Wen Hua ^b   Abbasi Bafghi, Hamid ^a,c   Lin, Xiao Cong ^b   Van Dieën, Jaap H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b FUJIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c YAZD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Arm swing; Gait coordination; Low back pain; Relative phase; Trunk movements

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LEG MOVEMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MALE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX; TREADMILL; WALKING SPEED;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ARM; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955931899     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-010-1639-8     Document Type: Article

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