Aging reduces the ability to change grip force and balance control simultaneously

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 452, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-27

  Mallau, Sophie ^a,b   Simoneau, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Balance control; Grasping; Upright standing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; GRIP STRENGTH; GROUPS BY AGE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SITTING; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 59349102686     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.10.097     Document Type: Article

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