Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 429-432 , April 2010

Head stabilization in children of both genders during level walking

  • Claudia Mazzà

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Laboratory of Locomotor Apparatus Bioengineering, Department of Human Movement and Sport Sciences, Università degli Studi di Roma “Foro Italico”, Piazza Lauro De Bosis 15, 00135 Rome, Italy. Tel.: +39 06 36733522; fax: +39 06 36733517.
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  • Mounir Zok
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  • Aurelio Cappozzo

Received 15 June 2009 ,Revised 12 January 2010 ,Accepted 19 January 2010.

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PII: S0966-6362(10)00027-5

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.01.012

Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 429-432 , April 2010

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