Armed against falls: The contribution of arm movements to balance recovery after tripping

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 201, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 689-699

  Pijnappels, Mirjam ^a   Kingma, Idsart ^a   Wezenberg, Daphne ^a   Reurink, Guus ^a   Van Dieën, Jaap H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accidental falls; Angular momentum; Gait; Perturbation; Stability; Upper extremity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURAL BALANCE; ROTATION; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 77951091947     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-2088-7     Document Type: Article

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