Postural sway during single and repeated cold exposures

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 947-953

  Mäkinen, Tiina M ^a   Rintamäki, Hannu ^a,b   Korpelainen, Juha T ^a   Kampman, Ville ^a   Pääkkönen, Tiina ^a   Oksa, Juha ^b   Palinkas, Lawrence A ^c   Leppäluoto, Juhani ^a   Hassi, Juhani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold acclimation; Cold strain; Habituation; Human; Postural control; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY MOVEMENT; COLD EXPOSURE; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INCLINOMETER; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE TONE; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COLD; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURE; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 26444613354     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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