Visual deprivation leads to gait adaptations that are age- and context-specific: I. Step-time parameters

Gait and Posture

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-59

  Hallemans, Ann ^a,b   Beccu, Sofie ^b   Van Loock, Kelly ^b   Ortibus, Els ^c   Truijen, Steven ^b   Aerts, Peter ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Hogeschool Antwerpen   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Children; Gait; Kinematics; Postural control; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CHILD; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; VISION; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; WALKING SPEED;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURAL BALANCE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; WALKING;

EID: 67349268976     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.02.018     Document Type: Article

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