Clinical Biomechanics
Volume 16, Issue 8 , Pages 688-695 , October 2001

Functional roles of ankle and hip sagittal muscle moments in able-bodied gait

  • Heydar Sadeghi

      Affiliations

    • Research Centre, Sainte-Justine Hospital, 3175 Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montreal, Que., Canada H3T 1C5
    • Marie-Enfant Rehabilitation Centre of Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal, Que., Canada
    • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal, Que., Canada
    • Department of Kinesiology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Que., Canada
    • Department of Kinesiology, Tarbiat Moallem University, Ministry of Culture and Higher Education, Tehran, Iran
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author
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  • Somayeh Sadeghi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Que., Canada
    • ,
  • Francois Prince

      Affiliations

    • Research Centre, Sainte-Justine Hospital, 3175 Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montreal, Que., Canada H3T 1C5
    • Marie-Enfant Rehabilitation Centre of Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal, Que., Canada
    • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal, Que., Canada
    • ,
  • Paul Allard

      Affiliations

    • Research Centre, Sainte-Justine Hospital, 3175 Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montreal, Que., Canada H3T 1C5
    • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal, Que., Canada
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  • Hubert Labelle

      Affiliations

    • Research Centre, Sainte-Justine Hospital, 3175 Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montreal, Que., Canada H3T 1C5
    • Marie-Enfant Rehabilitation Centre of Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal, Que., Canada
    • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal, Que., Canada
    • ,
  • Christopher L. Vaughan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa

Received 3 October 2000 ,Accepted 12 June 2001.

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Clinical Biomechanics
Volume 16, Issue 8 , Pages 688-695 , October 2001

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