Effects of postural threat on walking features of Parkinson's disease patients

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 452, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 136-140

  Caetano, Maria Joana Duarte ^a   Gobbi, Lilian Teresa Bucken ^a   Sánchez Arias, Mónica del Rosario ^a   Stella, Florindo ^a,b   Gobbi, Sebastião ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dynamic balance; Kinematics; Parkinson's disease; Task constraints; Walking

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WALKING;

AGED; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTURAL BALANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; WALKING;

EID: 60249090474     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.01.053     Document Type: Article

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