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Case Study

Using musculoskeletal modeling to evaluate the effect of ankle foot orthosis tuning on musculotendon dynamics: a case study

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Pages 613-618 | Received 01 Sep 2014, Accepted 05 Jan 2015, Published online: 02 Feb 2015

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