Gait & Posture
Volume 32, Issue 4 , Pages 661-663 , October 2010

A new upper extremity sparing non-weight bearing orthosis

  • Cengiz Yilmaz

      Affiliations

    • Mersin University Medical School, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +90 324 3364313; fax: +90 324 3364313.
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  • Ugur Dal

      Affiliations

    • Mersin University Medical School, Department of Physiology, Turkey
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  • A. Taner Erdoğan

      Affiliations

    • Mersin University Physical Education and Sports Institute, Turkey
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  • Mehmet Colak

      Affiliations

    • Mersin University Medical School, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Turkey

Received 9 September 2009 ,Revised 26 July 2010 ,Accepted 6 August 2010.

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PII: S0966-6362(10)00225-0

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.08.001

Gait & Posture
Volume 32, Issue 4 , Pages 661-663 , October 2010

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