Gait training with virtual reality-based real-time feedback: Improving gait performance following transfemoral amputation

Physical Therapy

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1385-1394

  Darter, Benjamin J ^a   Wilken, Jason M ^a  

^a BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BLAST INJURY; CASE REPORT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GAIT; HUMAN; LEG INJURY; LIMB PROSTHESIS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION;

AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BIOMECHANICS; BLAST INJURIES; FEEDBACK; GAIT; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053179213     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20100360     Document Type: Article

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