Fear of falling: Links between imbalance and anxiety

Reviews in Clinical Gerontology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 195-201

  Yardley, Lucy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ANXIETY DISORDER; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY MOVEMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISABILITY; DIZZINESS; FALLING; FEAR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTION; PROPRIOCEPTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VISUAL DISORDER;

EID: 3242679747     PISSN: 09592598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959259803001023     Document Type: Review

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