Gait & Posture
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 155-160 , June 2010

On the role of knee joint in balance control and postural strategies: Effects of total knee replacement in elderly subjects with knee osteoarthritis

  • Gérome C. Gauchard

      Affiliations

    • Nancy-University, Henri Poincaré University, Balance Control and Motor Performance, UFR STAPS, Villers-lès-Nancy, France
    • INSERM U 954, Thematic group “Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neuroplasticity, Cognition”, Faculty of Medicine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
    • ,
  • Guy Vançon

      Affiliations

    • Centre of Rehabilitation & Readaptation, “Centre Florentin”, OHS de Meurthe-et-Moselle, Nancy, France
    • ,
  • Philippe Meyer

      Affiliations

    • Centre of Rehabilitation & Readaptation “Centre Jacques Parisot”, OHS de Meurthe-et-Moselle, Bainville-sur-Madon, France
    • ,
  • Didier Mainard

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospital of Nancy, Nancy, France
    • ,
  • Philippe P. Perrin

      Affiliations

    • Nancy-University, Henri Poincaré University, Balance Control and Motor Performance, UFR STAPS, Villers-lès-Nancy, France
    • INSERM U 954, Thematic group “Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neuroplasticity, Cognition”, Faculty of Medicine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
    • Department of ENT, University Hospital of Nancy, Nancy, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Equilibration et Performance Motrice, Nancy Université, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy 1, UFR STAPS, 30 rue du Jardin Botanique, 54 600 Villers-lès-Nancy, France. Tel.: +33 383 682 929; fax: +33 383 154 647.

Received 19 April 2009 ,Revised 7 January 2010 ,Accepted 12 April 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.04.002

Gait & Posture
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 155-160 , June 2010

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