Optimizing gait in peripheral neuropathy

Gait Disorders: Evaluation and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 339-360

  Richardson, James K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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