Balance in the Elderly

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 395-412

  Matsumura, Brittany A ^a   Ambrose, Anne F ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; MECLOZINE; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADAPTATION; AGED; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BALANCE DISORDER; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSITION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONDITIONING; ENDURANCE; EPISODIC VERTIGO; EXERCISE; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYSTEM; FALLING; FRACTURE; GAIT DISORDER; HABITUATION; HAIR LOSS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LABRINTHITIS; MECHANORECEPTOR; MENIERE DISEASE; MORTALITY; MOTION; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TRAINING; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSITIONAL VERTIGO; RESEARCH; REST; REVIEW; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SHOE; SIDE EFFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM; WALKING AID;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSATION DISORDERS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646109303     PISSN: 07490690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cger.2005.12.007     Document Type: Review

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