Gait & Posture
Volume 23, Issue 2 , Pages 222-229 , February 2006

Musculo-tendon length and lengthening velocity of rectus femoris in stiff knee gait

  • Ilse Jonkers

      Affiliations

    • Kinesiology Department, Faculty for Physical Education and Physiotherapy, KU-Leuven, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +32 16 329100; fax: +32 16 329196.
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  • Caroline Stewart

      Affiliations

    • ORLAU, Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt and Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, UK
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  • Kaat Desloovere

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Motion Analysis Laboratory, CERM, University Hospital-Leuven, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, KU-Leuven, Belgium
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  • Guy Molenaers

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Motion Analysis Laboratory, University Hospital-Leuven, Department of Pediatric Orthopaedics, KU-Leuven, Belgium
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  • Arthur Spaepen

      Affiliations

    • Kinesiology Department, Faculty for Physical Education and Physiotherapy, KU-Leuven, Belgium

Received 21 September 2004 ,Revised 18 February 2005 ,Accepted 24 February 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2005.02.005

Gait & Posture
Volume 23, Issue 2 , Pages 222-229 , February 2006

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