Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 109-115 , January 2010

The effect of arm movements on the lower limb during gait after a stroke

  • Jennifer L. Stephenson

      Affiliations

    • School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    • Feil and Oberfeld Research Centre (site of CRIR), Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital, Laval, Quebec, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: University of Colorado Denver, Physical Therapy Program, Mail Stop C244, 13121 E 17th Ave, Room 3106, Aurora, CO 80045, USA. Tel.: +1 303 724 0066.
    • ,
  • Sophie J. De Serres

      Affiliations

    • School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    • Feil and Oberfeld Research Centre (site of CRIR), Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital, Laval, Quebec, Canada
    • ,
  • Anouk Lamontagne

      Affiliations

    • School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    • Feil and Oberfeld Research Centre (site of CRIR), Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital, Laval, Quebec, Canada

Received 1 April 2009 ,Revised 2 September 2009 ,Accepted 12 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.09.008

Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 109-115 , January 2010

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