Gait & Posture
Volume 23, Issue 2 , Pages 230-239 , February 2006

How do persons with chronic low back pain speed up and slow down? Trunk–pelvis coordination and lumbar erector spinae activity during gait

Received 18 February 2005 ,Accepted 24 February 2005.

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☆ ESMAC 2004 Best Paper Award.

PII: S0966-6362(05)00029-9

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2005.02.006

Gait & Posture
Volume 23, Issue 2 , Pages 230-239 , February 2006

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