Context-dependent reflex control: Some insights into the role of balance

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 251-259

  Rietdyk, Shirley ^a   Patla, Aftab E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Balance; Control strategies; Human; Reflexes; Tripping

Indexed keywords

ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; WALKING AID;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLES; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; REFLEX;

EID: 0031935328     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050339     Document Type: Article

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