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Rigid Ankle Foot Orthosis Deteriorates Mediolateral Balance Control and Vertical Braking during Gait Initiation

Rigid ankle-foot orthoses (AFO) are commonly used for impeding foot drop during the swing phase of gait. They also reduce pain and improve gait kinematics in patients with weakness or loss of integrity of ankle-foot complex structures due to various pathological conditions. However, this comes at th...

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Autores principales: Delafontaine, Arnaud, Gagey, Olivier, Colnaghi, Silvia, Do, Manh-Cuong, Honeine, Jean-Louis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5408009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28503144
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00214