Dual-task costs while walking increase in old age for some, but not for other tasks: An experimental study of healthy young and elderly persons

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bock, Otmar ^a  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE RELATED DUAL TASK DEFICIT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; WALKING; WALKING SPEED; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISABILITY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FITNESS; KINESIOTHERAPY; LOCOMOTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ORIENTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; CUES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXERCISE THERAPY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57249108330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17430003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-0003-5-27     Document Type: Article

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