Age-related decline of gait control under a dual-task condition [7]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1187-1188

  Beauchet, Olivier ^a   Kressig, Reto W ^a   Najafi, Bijan ^b   Aminian, Kamiar ^b   Dubost, Véronique ^c   Mourey, France ^d  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^d DIJON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 0041520956     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2003.51385.x     Document Type: Letter

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