Aging-Induced Shifts from a Reliance on Sensory Input to Muscle Cocontraction during Balanced Standing

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 166-171

  Benjuya, Nisim ^a   Melzer, Itshak ^b   Kaplanski, Jacob ^b  

^a KAYE ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF EDUCATION   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; SENSORY STIMULATION; SKIN SENSATION; SOLEUS MUSCLE; STANDING; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VISION;

RECTUS;

EID: 1442307004     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/59.2.m166     Document Type: Article

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