Balance and aging

Laryngoscope

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1454-1460

  Konrad, Horst R ^a   Girardi, Marian ^a   Helfert, Robert ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Balance; Falls prevention; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; MECLOZINE; STEROID;

AGED; AGING; ANAMNESIS; ANATOMY; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BENIGN RECURRENT VERTIGO; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; FALLING; HUMAN; INNER EAR DISEASE; LABYRINTHITIS; MENIERE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OTOTOXICITY; PERILYMPH FISTULA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGING; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; SENSATION DISORDERS;

EID: 0032887970     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199909000-00019     Document Type: Article

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