Adaptive gait changes due to spectacle magnification and dioptric blur in older people

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 718-722

  Elliott, David B ^a   Chapman, Graham J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; BLURRED VISION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; LENS; MALE; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTACLE MAGNIFICATION; STEREOACUITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; ADAPTATION; BINOCULAR VISION; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FRAIL ELDERLY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECTACLES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYEGLASSES; FRAIL ELDERLY; GAIT; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; MYOPIA; POSTURAL BALANCE; POSTURE; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 77449104208     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4250     Document Type: Article

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