Gait & Posture
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 395-404 , November 2009

Review of quantitative measurements of upper limb movements in hemiplegic cerebral palsy

  • Ellen Jaspers

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Tervuursevest 101, 3001 Leuven, Belgium. Tel.: +32 16 329117; fax: +32 16 329197.
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  • Kaat Desloovere

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
    • Clinical Motion Analysis Laboratory, CERM, University Hospital of Pellenberg, Belgium
    • ,
  • Herman Bruyninckx

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
    • ,
  • Guy Molenaers

      Affiliations

    • Department of Musculoskeletal Sciences, Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
    • ,
  • Katrijn Klingels

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
    • ,
  • Hilde Feys

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Received 2 September 2008 ,Revised 24 June 2009 ,Accepted 7 July 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.07.110

Gait & Posture
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 395-404 , November 2009

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