From "first" to "last" steps in life--pressure patterns of three generations

Kerstin Bosch1, Arne Nagel, Lars Weigend

  • 1Movement Analysis Lab, Orthopaedic Department, University Hospital Muenster, Germany. boschk@uni-muenster.de

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