Sensory-specific balance training in older adults: Effect on position, movement, and velocity sense at the ankle

Physical Therapy

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 560-568

  Westlake, Kelly P ^a   Wu, Yushiao ^c   Culham, Elsie G ^b  

^a Rehabilitation Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AGED; AGING; ANKLE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXERCISE; FALL RISK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PROPRIOCEPTION; THYROID DISEASE; VOLUNTEER;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANKLE; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROPRIOCEPTION;

EID: 34247582737     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20060262     Document Type: Article

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