Gait asymmetry in patients with Parkinson's disease and elderly fallers: When does the bilateral coordination of gait require attention?

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 336-346

  Yogev, Galit ^a   Plotnik, Meir ^a   Peretz, Chava ^a,b   Giladi, Nir ^a,b   Hausdorff, Jeffrey M ^a,b,c  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Bilateral coordination; Cognitive function; Dual tasking; Gait

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTHM; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33847136353     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0676-3     Document Type: Article

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