Arm swing asymmetry in overground walking

Tim Killeen1, Morad Elshehabi2,3,4, Linard Filli5

  • 1Spinal Cord Injury Center, University Hospital Balgrist, Zurich, Switzerland. tim.killeen@balgrist.ch.

Scientific Reports
|August 26, 2018
PubMed

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