Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 522-526 , April 2010

Variability and symmetry of gait in early walkers with and without bilateral cerebral palsy

  • Laura A. Prosser

      Affiliations

    • Rehabilitation Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: National Institutes of Health, Building 10-CRC, 1-1469, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Tel.: +1 301 451 7534; fax: +1 301 451 7536.
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  • Richard T. Lauer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Therapy, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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  • Ann F. VanSant

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Therapy, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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  • Mary F. Barbe

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Therapy, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
    • Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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  • Samuel C.K. Lee

      Affiliations

    • Physical Therapy Department, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
    • Shriners Hospitals for Children, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Received 11 August 2009 ,Revised 18 February 2010 ,Accepted 1 March 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.03.001

Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 522-526 , April 2010

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