Balance improvements after a week-long Tai Chi workshop as determined by dynamic posturography

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation

Volumn 46, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Li, Hongtao ^a   Waite, Gabi N ^a   Moga, Margaret M ^a   Lam, Paul ^b   Geib, Roy W ^a  

^a Indiana University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age difference; Balance; Gender difference; Posturography; Tai Chi

Indexed keywords

A-STABILITY; AGE DIFFERENCES; BALANCE PERFORMANCE; BODY SWAY; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; GENDER DIFFERENCES; INDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; POSTUROGRAPHY; PROFESSIONAL SYSTEMS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC;

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

SYSTEM STABILITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MONITOR; PERFORMANCE; SCORING SYSTEM; STABILOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TAI CHI; UNITED STATES; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 77951616805     PISSN: 00678856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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