Visualisation to enhance biomechanical tuning of ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) in stroke: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Carse, Bruce ^a   Bowers, Roy J ^a   Meadows, Barry C ^b   Rowe, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3d motion analysis; Ankle foot orthosis; Biomechanics; Gait analysis; Hemiplegia; Stroke; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

ANKLE FOOT ORTHOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICAL VISUALIZATION SOFTWARE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; FOOT ORTHOSIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LEG MOVEMENT; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STROKE; WALKING SPEED; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOT; GAIT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOTICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANKLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; FOOT; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STROKE;

EID: 82655183763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-254     Document Type: Article

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