Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 479-482 , April 2010

Further evidence of validity of the Gait Deviation Index

  • M. Molloy

      Affiliations

    • Gait Analysis Laboratory, Musgrave Park Hospital (Belfast HSC Trust), Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • B.C. McDowell

      Affiliations

    • Gait Analysis Laboratory, Musgrave Park Hospital (Belfast HSC Trust), Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Gait Analysis Laboratory, Musgrave Park Hospital, Stockman's Lane, Belfast BT9 7JB, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Tel.: +44 28 9090 2849; fax: +44 28 9066 1112.
    • ,
  • C. Kerr

      Affiliations

    • Gait Analysis Laboratory, Musgrave Park Hospital (Belfast HSC Trust), Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
    • School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • A.P. Cosgrove

      Affiliations

    • Gait Analysis Laboratory, Musgrave Park Hospital (Belfast HSC Trust), Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Received 18 November 2009 ,Revised 28 January 2010 ,Accepted 29 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.01.025

Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 479-482 , April 2010

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