Weighted vest exercise improves indices of fall risk in older women

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1998, Pages

  Shaw, Janet M ^a   Snow, Christine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

AGED; ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; BONE DENSITY; DIET; ERGOMETRY; FALLING; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; FOLLOW UP; HIP FRACTURE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; KINESIOTHERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; RADIODENSITOMETRY; RISK FACTOR; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WEIGHT BEARING; WEIGHT LIFTING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE DENSITY; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; DIET; ERGOMETRY; ESTROGENS; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTURE; RISK FACTORS; WEIGHT LIFTING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0031608210     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/53A.1.M53     Document Type: Article

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