Strategies for posture transfer adopted by elders during sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 695-706

  Leung, Cherng Yee ^a   Chang, Chih Sheng ^a  

^a TATUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; WALKING AID; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WEIGHT BEARING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIOMECHANICS; CANES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MOBILITY LIMITATION; MOTOR SKILLS; ORIENTATION; POSTURAL BALANCE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 77949643589     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: 00315125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.109.3.695-706     Document Type: Article

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