Relationship between age and head movement during stepping in place by nonhandicapped children and persons with mental retardation

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 375-381

  Okuzumi, Hideyuki ^a   Tanaka, Atsushi ^b   Haishi, Kouichi ^c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b National Institute of Vocational Rehabilitation   (Japan)

^c Nagano University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM;

EID: 0031205112     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1997.85.1.375     Document Type: Article

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