Walking for the assessment of balance in healthy subjects older than 40 years

Gerontology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 467-473

  Spagnuolo, Daniel Lucas ^a   Jürgensen, Soraia Pilon ^a   Iwama, Ângela May ^a   Dourado, Victor Zuniga ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Department of Health Sciences ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Balance; Gait; Walking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC CAPACITY; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GAIT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROMETRY; VELOCITY; WALKING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTURAL BALANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WALKING;

EID: 77958558581     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000275686     Document Type: Article

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