Immediate effects of using ankle-foot orthoses in the kinematics of gait and in the balance reactions in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

• Main Authors: Rouse Barbosa Pereira (Author), Lílian Ramiro Felício (Author), Arthur de Sá Ferreira (Author), Sara Lúcia de Menezes (Author), Marcos Raimundo Gomes de Freitas (Author), Marco Orsini (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo, 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease is a peripheral hereditary neuropathy with progressive distal muscle atrophy and weakness, mainly in lower limbs, that evolves limiting the gait and balance. The objective of the study was to analyse the immediate effects of using Ankle-Foot Orthosis (AFO) in th...