Gait Analysis. An Introduction

✍ Scribed by Michael W. Whittle (Auth.)

Publisher: Elsevier Ltd, Butterworth-Heinemann
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Leaves: 236
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

An examination of a patient's ability to walk is utilized as an aid to diagnosis or as an assessment of treatment. This study provides a review of the basic sciences of anatomy and physiology, and the biomechanics of normal and pathological gait, emphasizing clinical and scientific analysis

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Acknowledgements, Page vii
Dedication, Page viii
Preface, Pages ix-x
1 - Basic Sciences, Pages 1-47
2 - Normal Gait, Pages 48-90
3 - Pathological Gait, Pages 91-129
4 - Methods of Gait Analysis, Pages 130-173
5 - Applications of Gait Analysis, Pages 174-200
Conclusion, Page 201
Appendix 1 - Normal ranges for gait parameters, Pages 202-203
Appendix 2 - Conversions between measurement units, Pages 204-206
Appendix 3 - Computer program for general gait parameters, Pages 207-208
Appendix 4 - Addresses of suppliers, Pages 209-215
Glossary of medical terms, Pages 216-218
References, Pages 219-222
Index, Pages 223-230

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