Lower-extremity biomechanics during forward and lateral stepping activities in older adults

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 214-221

  Wang, Man Ying ^a   Flanagan, Sean ^a   Song, Joo Eun ^a   Greendale, Gail A ^b   Salem, George J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinematics; Kinetics; Older adults; Resistance exercise

Indexed keywords

JOINTS (ANATOMY); KINEMATICS; MUSCLE;

LATERAL STEPPING;

BIOMECHANICS;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT; KINEMATICS; KINETICS; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0037335262     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0033(02)00204-8     Document Type: Article

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