Effects of excessive body weight on postural control

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1295-1300

  Błaszczyk, Janusz W ^a,b   Cieślinska Świder, Joanna ^a   Plewa, Michal ^a   Zahorska Markiewicz, Barbara ^c   Markiewicz, Andrzej ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SPORT SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Body weight; Obesity; Postural control; Posture

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CENTER OF FOOT PRESSURES; DIRECTIONAL COMPONENT; DYNAMIC STABILITY; FORCE PLATE; FUNCTIONAL ADAPTATION; OBESITY; POSTURAL CONTROL; POSTURAL SWAY; POSTURE; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; TOTAL PATH LENGTH; WHOLE BODY;

BIOMECHANICS; NUTRITION; WEIGHING;

ANTHROPOMETRY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY MASS; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID CLOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POSTURE; VISION, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349261405     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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