Balance control in patients with distal versus proximal muscle weakness

Neuroscience

Volumn 164, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1876-1886

  Horlings, C G C ^a,b   Kung U M ^b   van Engelen, B G M ^a   Voermans, N C ^a   Hengstman, G J D ^a   van der Kooi, A J ^c   Bloem, B R ^a   Allum, J H J ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

balance control; distal spinal muscular atrophy; dynamic posturography; limb girdle muscular dystrophy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; KNEE; LIMB GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; LIMB WEAKNESS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; TRUNK;

BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURAL BALANCE; ROTATION;

EID: 70449529667     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.09.063     Document Type: Article

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