Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Pages 351-354 , March 2010

Natural history of flexed knee gait in diplegic cerebral palsy evaluated by gait analysis in children who have not had surgery

  • G.E. Rose

      Affiliations

    • Anderson Gait Analysis Laboratory, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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  • K.A. Lightbody

      Affiliations

    • College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • R.G. Ferguson

      Affiliations

    • College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • J.C. Walsh

      Affiliations

    • Anderson Gait Analysis Laboratory, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • J.E. Robb

      Affiliations

    • Anderson Gait Analysis Laboratory, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Sciennes Road, Edinburgh, EH9 1LF, Scotland, United Kingdom. Tel.: +44 131 536 0834.

Received 22 June 2009 ,Revised 20 December 2009 ,Accepted 22 December 2009.

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PII: S0966-6362(09)00691-2

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.12.006

Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Pages 351-354 , March 2010

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