Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 506-510 , April 2010

Multiple Sclerosis Walking Scale-12 and oxygen cost of walking

  • Robert W. Motl

      Affiliations

    • Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, 350 Freer Hall, 906 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, United States. Tel.: +1 217 265 0886; fax: +1 217 244 7322.
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  • Deirdre Dlugonski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, United States
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  • Yoojin Suh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, United States
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  • Madeline Weikert

      Affiliations

    • Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, United States
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  • Stamatis Agiovlasitis

      Affiliations

    • Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, United States
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  • Bo Fernhall

      Affiliations

    • Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, United States
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  • Myla Goldman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States

Received 10 November 2009 ,Revised 2 February 2010 ,Accepted 14 February 2010.

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PII: S0966-6362(10)00064-0

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.02.011

Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 506-510 , April 2010

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