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Muscle paresis and passive stiffness: Key determinants in limiting function in Hereditary and Sporadic Spastic Paraparesis

BACKGROUND: People with Hereditary and Sporadic Spastic Parapresis (SP) walk with a stiff legged gait characterised by a lack of knee flexion. OBJECTIVE: We investigated the relationship between lower limb strength and stiffness and knee flexion during swing phase while walking in 20 people with SP...

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Autores principales: Marsden, Jon, Ramdharry, Gita, Stevenson, Valerie, Thompson, Alan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Sciencem 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3657152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22050971
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2011.09.018