Task-specific measures of balance efficacy, anxiety, and stability and their relationship to clinical balance performance

Gait and Posture

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 676-682

  Hauck, Laura J ^a   Carpenter, Mark G ^b   Frank, James S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Falls; Fear; Postural threat; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURE;

EID: 41549161522     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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