Can stooped posture explain multidirectional postural instability in patients with Parkinson's disease?

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 78-88

  Jacobs, Jesse V ^a   Dimitrova, Diana M ^a   Nutt, John G ^a,b,c   Horak, Fay B ^a,b,d  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Oregon Health and Science University Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance; EMG; Kinematics; Parkinson's disease; Posture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FORCE; HIP; HUMAN; JOINT; KINEMATICS; KINETICS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTURAL INSTABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; STOOPED POSTURE; TRUNK;

AGED; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; JOINTS; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 26844507926     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-2346-2     Document Type: Article

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