Balance recovery from a forward fall: Developmental aspects of sensorimotor organization and the role of supraspinal control

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 442, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 300-304

  Do, Manh Cuong ^a,b   Chong, Raymond Kwong Yew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance recovery; Children; Compensatory postural reactions; Forward fall; Stepping

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SPINE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM;

EID: 48749087318     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.07.008     Document Type: Article

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