Employing a virtual environment in postural research and rehabilitation to reveal the impact of visual information

Journal of Endocrine Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 177-182

  Keshner, Emily A ^a,b   Kenyon, Robert V ^c   Dhaher, Yasin ^a,b   Streepey, Jefferson W ^a  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Inter segmental coordination; Physical rehabilitation; Posture; Sensory weighting; Visual motion; Visual target

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; REHABILITATION RESEARCH; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 33751244525     PISSN: 1565012X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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