Assessing gait adaptability in people with a unilateral amputation on an instrumented treadmill with a projected visual context

Physical Therapy

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1452-1460

  Houdijk, Han ^a   van Ooijen, Marielle W ^a   Kraal, Jos J ^a   Wiggerts, Henri O ^a   Polomski, Wojtek ^a   Janssen, Thomas W J ^a   Roerdink, Melvyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; DISABILITY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; WALKING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868536292     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20110362     Document Type: Article

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