Evaluation of the specificity of selected dynamic balance tests

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 92, Issue 3 PART 1, 2001, Pages 827-833

  Tsigilis, N ^b   Zachopoulou, Evridiki ^a   Mavridis, Th ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RANDOMIZATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0035378746     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2001.92.3.827     Document Type: Review

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