Mechanical Energy Recovery during Walking in Patients with Parkinson Disease.

The mechanisms of mechanical energy recovery during gait have been thoroughly investigated in healthy subjects, but never described in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). The aim of this study was to investigate whether such mechanisms are preserved in PD patients despite an altered pattern of loc...

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Main Authors: Mariangela Dipaola, Esteban E Pavan, Andrea Cattaneo, Giuseppe Frazzitta, Gianni Pezzoli, Paolo Cavallari, Carlo A Frigo, Ioannis U Isaias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4892681?pdf=render