Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 9 , Pages 1009-1014 , November 2010

Variability and stability analysis of walking of transfemoral amputees

  • Claudine J.C. Lamoth

      Affiliations

    • Center for Human Movement Sciences, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, A Deusinglaan 1, Sector F, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +31 50 3639036.
    • ,
  • Erik Ainsworth

      Affiliations

    • Research Institute MOVE, Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Wojtek Polomski

      Affiliations

    • Heliomare Rehabilitation Centre, Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Han Houdijk

      Affiliations

    • Heliomare Rehabilitation Centre, Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands
    • Research Institute MOVE, Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Received 13 October 2009 ,Revised 28 May 2010 ,Accepted 4 July 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.07.001

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 9 , Pages 1009-1014 , November 2010

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