Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 489-494 , April 2010

Reproducibility and validity of video screen measurements of gait in children with spastic cerebral palsy

  • Sebastian Grunt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Department of Child Neurology, University Children's Hospital, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Child Neurology, University Children's Hospital, Inselspital, 3015 Bern, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 32 632 94 24; fax: +41 31 632 95 00.
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  • Petra J. van Kampen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Marjolein M. van der Krogt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Research Institute MOVE, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Merel-Anne Brehm

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Research Institute MOVE, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Caroline A.M. Doorenbosch

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Research Institute MOVE, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Jules G. Becher

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Received 11 May 2009 ,Revised 4 February 2010 ,Accepted 14 February 2010.

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☆ During his work at this study Sebastian Grunt was supported by grants of the Anna Müller-Grocholski Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland and the Swiss Foundation for Children with Cerebral Palsy, Berne, Switzerland.

PII: S0966-6362(10)00059-7

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.02.006

Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 489-494 , April 2010

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