Foot drop splints improve proximal as well as distal leg control during gait in Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 512-519

  Ramdharry, Gita M ^a,b   Day, Brian L ^b   Reilly, Mary M ^b   Marsden, Jonathan F ^c  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Charcot Marie Tooth; Compensation; Foot drop; Gait; Orthoses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE FOOT ORTHOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOT MALFORMATION; GAIT; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; LEG PROSTHESIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOE; SPLINT; WALKING;

ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; SPLINTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866312534     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.23348     Document Type: Article

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