Effect of ageing on the ability to adapt to a visual distortion during walking

Gait and Posture

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 440-446

  Huitema, Rients B ^a   Brouwer, Wiebo H ^a   Mulder, Theo ^b   Dekker, Rienk ^a   Hof, At L ^b   Postema, Klaas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ageing; Heading stability; Prism paradigm; Proprioception; Realignment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL THRESHOLD; WALKING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PROPRIOCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKING;

EID: 18844368486     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2004.05.007     Document Type: Article

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