Directional Aspects of Balance Corrections in Man

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 37-47

  Allum, John H J ^a   Carpenter, Mark G ^b   Honegger, Flurin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALANCE DISORDER; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FALLING; HUMAN; MOTOR COORDINATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; REVIEW; ARM; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; LEG; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; ROTATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STIMULATION;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ARM; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; LEG; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; ROTATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0041571740     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMB.2003.1195694     Document Type: Review

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