Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 93-99 , January 2010

Patients with type II diabetes mellitus display reduced toe-obstacle clearance with altered gait patterns during obstacle-crossing

  • Ming-Wei Liu

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Department of Surgery, Taiwan Adventist Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Wei-Chun Hsu

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Tung-Wu Lu

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886 2 33653335; fax: +886 2 33653335.
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  • Hao-Ling Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Occupational Therapy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Hwa-Chang Liu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Taiwan Adventist Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Received 19 December 2008 ,Revised 28 August 2009 ,Accepted 12 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.09.005

Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 93-99 , January 2010

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