The effects of shoe fit on gait in community-dwelling older adults

Gait and Posture

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 274-278

  Doi, Takehiko ^a,e   Yamaguchi, Ryota ^a   Asai, Tsuyoshi ^a,b   Komatsu, Minoru ^a   Makiura, Daisuke ^a   Shimamura, Masanori ^c   Hirata, Soichiro ^a   Ando, Hiroshi ^a   Kurosaka, Masahiro ^d  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kobe Gakuin University   (Japan)

^c KOBE COLLEGE   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accelerometers; Gait; Older adults; Regularity; Shoe fit

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT REGULARITY; GAIT VELOCITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOE; STRIDE DURATION; STRIDE LENGTH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY;

ACCELERATION; AGED; BIOMECHANICS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SHOES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77954656770     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.05.012     Document Type: Article

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