Gait & Posture
Volume 32, Issue 1 , Pages 10-17 , May 2010

Repeatability of upper limb kinematics for children with and without cerebral palsy

Received 12 September 2009 ,Revised 12 February 2010 ,Accepted 18 February 2010.

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