Perturbations of ground support alter posture and locomotion coupling during step initiation in Parkinson's disease

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 208, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 557-567

  Rogers, Mark W ^a   Hilliard, Marjorie Johnson ^a   Martinez, Katherine M ^a   Zhang, Yunhui ^a   Simuni, Tanya ^a   Mille, Marie Laure ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of the South   (France)

Author keywords

Limb load; Parkinson's disease; Posture; Step initiation

Indexed keywords

CARBIDOPA; LEVODOPA; PRAMIPEXOLE; ROPINIROLE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICIPATORY POSTURAL ADJUSTMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; KINETICS; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; STANDING; SURFACE PROPERTY; WALKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIPARKINSON AGENTS; BIOMECHANICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTURE; WALKING;

EID: 79952532844     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2504-z     Document Type: Article

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