The role of vision in obese and normal-weight children's gait control

Gait and Posture

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 179-184

  D'Hondt, Eva ^a,b   Segers, Veerle ^a   Deforche, Benedicte ^a,c   Shultz, Sarah P ^d   Tanghe, Ann ^e   Gentier, Ilse ^a,b   De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse ^a   De Clercq, Dirk ^a   Lenoir, Matthieu ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^e Zeepreventorium   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Children; Gait; Kinematics; Obesity; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANKLE; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; FEMALE; GAIT; HEEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG; LEG MOVEMENT; LIGHT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MOTOR COORDINATION; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STANDING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOE JOINT; TRUNK; VISION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION; OBESITY; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 79951555922     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.10.090     Document Type: Article

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