Effect of an overground walking training on gait performance in healthy 65- to 80-year-olds

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 427-434

  Malatesta, Davide ^a,b   Simar, David ^c   Saad, Helmi Ben ^b,d   Préfaut, Christian ^b   Caillaud, Corinne ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b HÔPITAL ARNAUD DE VILLENEUVE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d Physiology and Functional Exploration Service   (Tunisia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; Economy; Gait; Metabolic cost; Ventilatory threshold

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; ENERGY COST; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; FITNESS; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG CAPACITY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING SPEED;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; POSTURAL BALANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WALKING;

EID: 77952550188     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2010.03.009     Document Type: Article

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