Relative effects of weight loss and strength training on balance recovery

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1488-1493

  Matrangola, Sara L ^a   Madigan, Michael L ^a,b  

^a Virginia Tech Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences   (United States)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TRAINING; NORMAL HUMAN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FALLING; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TORQUE; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANKLE; BODY MASS INDEX; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OBESITY; POSTURAL BALANCE; RISK FACTORS; TORQUE; VIRGINIA; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 67650079993     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31819bd4bd     Document Type: Article

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