Use of single-vision distance spectacles improves landing control during step descent in well-adapted multifocal lens-wearers

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3903-3908

  Timmis, Matthew A ^a   Johnson, Louise ^a   Elliott, David B ^b   Buckley, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Health Studies   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIFOCAL LENS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALL RISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MULTIFOCAL LENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTACLES; STANDING; VELOCITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; BINOCULAR VISION; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; FALLING; GAIT; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; RISK FACTOR; VISION;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; POSTURAL BALANCE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955892244     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4987     Document Type: Article

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