The effect of feet position on orthostatic posture in a female sample group

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 365, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 79-82

  Mouzat, Arnaud ^a,c   Dabonneville, Michel ^a   Bertrand, Pierre ^b  

^a Laboratoire d'Informatique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^c Les Cézeaux   (France)

Author keywords

Center of pressure; Equilibrium; Feet position; Female; Orthostatic posture; Stabilometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDING; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; POSTURE;

EID: 3042814755     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.04.062     Document Type: Article

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