Changes in Walking Strategies after Spaceflight

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 58-62

  Bloomberg, Jacob J ^a   Mulavara, Ajitkumar P ^b  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMONAUT; GAZE; HUMAN; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR COORDINATION; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPACE FLIGHT; WALKING; ADAPTATION; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; GAIT; HEAD; HOMEOSTASIS; LEG; LONG DURATION; MANNED; MIR PROJECT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT DURATION; STS SHUTTLE PROJECT; VISION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; LONG DURATION; MANNED; MIR PROJECT; SHORT DURATION; STS SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ASTRONAUTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEEDBACK; GAIT; HEAD; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; LEG; MOVEMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; SPACE FLIGHT; VISION; WALKING; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0042072990     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMB.2003.1195697     Document Type: Review

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