Sudden turns and stops while walking: Kinematic sources of age and gender differences

Gait and Posture

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-52

  Cao, Cheng ^a,b   Schultz, Albert B ^a,b   Ashton Miller, James A ^a,b   Alexander, Neil B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Falls; Gait; Older adults; Stopping

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BIOMECHANICS; DECELERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SENESCENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TORQUE; VELOCITY; WALKING;

EID: 0031937419     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-6362(97)00031-3     Document Type: Article

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