Sensory-specific balance training in older adults: Effect on proprioceptive reintegration and cognitive demands

Physical Therapy

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1274-1283

  Westlake, Kelly P ^a   Culham, Elsie G ^b  

^a Rehabilitation Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITIES SPECIFIC BALANCE CONFIDENCE SCALE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FULLERTON ADVANCED BALANCE SCALE; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROPRIOCEPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORY SYSTEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STANDING; VIBRATION;

AGED; COGNITION; EXERCISE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIBRATION;

EID: 35348887822     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20060263     Document Type: Article

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