The influence of muscle strength on the gait profile score (GPS) across different patients

Gait and Posture

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 80-85

  Schweizer, Katrin ^a,b   Romkes, Jacqueline ^a   Coslovsky, Michael ^c   Brunner, Reinald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gait kinematics; Gait profile score (GPS); Muscle strength; Spasticity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTHROGRYPOSIS; ARTICLE; BONE DISEASE; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBRAL PALSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLACCID PARALYSIS; GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; GAIT PROFILE SCORE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; JOINT LAXITY; KINEMATICS; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NERVE PARALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARAPLEGIA; PERTHES DISEASE; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPASTICITY; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; BIOMECHANICS; FOLLOW UP; NEUROLOGIC GAIT DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAIT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888298291     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: 18792219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2013.06.001     Document Type: Article

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