Gait & Posture
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 185-190 , June 2010

An exercise intervention to improve diabetic patients’ gait in a real-life environment

  • L. Allet

      Affiliations

    • Care Services Directorate, Unit of Physiotherapy Research and Quality Assurance, Geneva University Hospital and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
    • University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, HES-SO, Geneva, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Care Service Directorate, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 22 372 36 46; fax: +41 22 372 82 15.
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  • S. Armand

      Affiliations

    • Willy Taillard Laboratory of Kinesiology, Geneva University Hospital and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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  • K. Aminian

      Affiliations

    • Service of Therapeutic Education for Chronic Diseases and the Service of Endocrinology, Geneva University Hospital and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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  • Z. Pataky

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Movement Analysis and Measurement, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • A. Golay

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Movement Analysis and Measurement, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • R.A. de Bie

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Human Movement Sciences and Sport, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
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  • E.D. de Bruin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University and Caphri research school, Maastricht, Netherlands

Received 19 November 2009 ,Revised 19 March 2010 ,Accepted 15 April 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.04.013

Gait & Posture
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 185-190 , June 2010

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