Easy, inexpensive, and effective: Vestibular exercises for balance control

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 141, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 641-643

  Dieterich, Marianne ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIZZINESS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SKILL; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TRAINING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR EXERCISE; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; VISUAL SYSTEM; CHRONIC DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; VESTIBULE;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DIZZINESS; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; VESTIBULE;

EID: 6044228307     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-141-8-200410190-00013     Document Type: Editorial

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