Falls in elderly people;Sturze im alter

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 122, Issue 50, 1997, Pages 1564-1568

  Specht Leible, N ^a,b   Hauer, K ^a,b   Oster, P ^a,b   Schlierf, G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Bethanien Krankenhauses Geriatrisches Zentrum   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FALLING; FEMUR FRACTURE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; PROPRIOCEPTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM; AGE; AGED; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; EXERCISE; FRACTURE; OSTEOPOROSIS; STATISTICS; WALKING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EXERCISE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; OSTEOPOROSIS; RISK FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 0031444342     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1047801     Document Type: Review

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