Factors predicting dynamic balance and quality of life in home-dwelling elderly women

Gerontology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 116-121

  Karinkanta, S ^a   Heinonen, A ^a,b   Sievanen H ^a   Uusi Rasi, K ^a   Kannus, P ^a,c  

^a UKK INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH PROMOTION RESEARCH   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Balance; Elderly women; Fall prevention; Muscle strength

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DYNAMOMETRY; EXERCISE; FALLING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LEG; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNNING; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SITTING; SKIING; STANDARDIZATION; STANDING; SWIMMING; VARIANCE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 20644446054     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000082196     Document Type: Article

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