Sensory organization determinants of postural stability in trained ballet dancers

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 87-97

  Simmons, Roger W ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ballet dancers; Postural control; Posturography; Sensory organization; Sensory weighting; Strategy analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; BALLET DANCER; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT STABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY; SENSORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; STABILOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DANCING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 11244327025     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207450490512678     Document Type: Article

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