A prospective study of posturography in normal older people

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 438-443

  Baloh, Robert W ^a   Corona, Sonia ^a   Jacobson, Kathleen M ^a   Enrietto, Jane A ^a   Bell, Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROPRIOCEPTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STABILOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031977272     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1998.tb02463.x     Document Type: Article

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