Balance recovery after an evoked forward fall in unilateral transtibial amputees

Gait and Posture

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 336-341

  Curtze, Carolin ^a,b   Hof, At L ^a,b   Otten, Bert ^b   Postema, Klaas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amputee; Balance; Dynamic stability; Falls; Stepping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABLED PERSON; FALLING; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; KNEE FUNCTION; LIMB AMPUTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIA;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; AMPUTATION; AMPUTEES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BIOMECHANICS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POSTURAL BALANCE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIBIA;

EID: 77956714579     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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