Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 2 , Pages 159-163 , February 2010

Reproducibility of energy cost of locomotion in ambulatory children with spina bifida

  • J.F. De Groot

      Affiliations

    • Research Group Lifestyle and Health, University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • Child Development and Exercise Center, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Pediatric Physiotherapy and Child Development and Exercise Center, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Room kb.02.056.0., P.O. Box 85090, 3508 AB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 88 7554030; fax: +31 88 7555333.
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  • T. Takken

      Affiliations

    • Child Development and Exercise Center, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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  • M.A.G.C. Schoenmakers

      Affiliations

    • Child Development and Exercise Center, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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  • L. Tummers

      Affiliations

    • University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • Child Development and Exercise Center, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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  • L. Vanhees

      Affiliations

    • Research Group Lifestyle and Health, University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium
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  • P.J.M. Helders

      Affiliations

    • Child Development and Exercise Center, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Received 22 January 2009 ,Revised 24 September 2009 ,Accepted 28 September 2009.

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☆ The authors would like to thank the children and their parents for participating in this research and the following institutions for their financial support: Dutch Royal Society for Physical Therapy and Wilhelmina Children's Hospital Research Foundation.

PII: S0966-6362(09)00631-6

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.09.017

Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 2 , Pages 159-163 , February 2010

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