Evaluation of Gait and Slip Characteristics for Adults with Mental Retardation

Adults with mental retardation (MR) experience a greater number of falls than their non-disabled peers. To date, efforts to understand the causes for these falls have primarily involved qualitative studies that use largely subjective measures to quantify stability. Performing a more objective biom...

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Main Author: Haynes, Courtney Ann
Other Authors: Biomedical Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35952
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12042008-115041/