Analysis of human postural responses to recoverable falls

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 387-404

  Bortolami, S B ^a   DiZio, P ^a   Rabin, E ^a   Lackner, J R ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance; Falling; Modeling; Motor control; Posture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; FALLING; FEMALE; FORCE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MASS COMMUNICATION; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STANDING; STERNUM; TRUNK; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

NASA DISCIPLINE SPACE HUMAN FACTORS; NON-NASA CENTER;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURE;

EID: 0043168112     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1481-x     Document Type: Article

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