Muscle strength is only a weak to moderate predictor of gait performance in persons with late effects of polio.

Summary, in English

To assess muscle strength in the knee extensors, knee flexors and ankle dorsiflexors in persons with late effects of polio, and determine how much muscle strength, gender, age and BMI are related to gait performance.

• Author: Ulla-Britt Flansbjer; Christina Brogårdh; Jan Lexell
• Department/s: Rehabilitation medicine; MultiPark: Multidisciplinary research focused on Parkinson´s disease
• Publishing year: 2013
• Language: English
• Pages: 457-464
• Publication/Series: NeuroRehabilitation
• Volume: 33
• Issue: 3
• Full text: - 125 kB; Download statistics
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23949084?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/NRE-130978
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: IOS Press
• Topic: Neurology
• Status: Published
• Research group: Rehabilitation medicine
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1878-6448