Power training improves balance in healthy older adults

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 78-85

  Orr, Rhonda ^a   De Vos, Nathan J ^a   Singh, Nalin A ^b,c   Ross, Dale A ^c   Stavrinos, Theodora M ^c   Fiatarone Singh, Maria A ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Balmain Hospital   (Australia)

^d RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; FALLING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE MEASURE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TRAINING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 32444448209     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/61.1.78     Document Type: Article

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