The Narrow Ridge Balance Test: A measure for one-leg lateral balance control

Gait and Posture

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 627-631

  Curtze, Carolin ^a   Postema, Klaas ^a   Akkermans, Hilda W ^b   Otten, Bert ^b   Hof, A L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age; Balance; Balance test; Base of support; Ridge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL VALIDITY; MALE; NARROW RIDGE BALANCE TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDING; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VESTIBULAR TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURAL BALANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149468485     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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