Assessment of postural control in patients with Parkinson's disease: Sway ratio analysis

Human Movement Science

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 396-404

  Błaszczyk, Janusz W ^a,b   Orawiec, Renata ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SPORT SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aging; Parkinson's disease; Postural stability; Posture; Sway ratio

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STABILOGRAPHY; STANDING; TREMOR;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; ORIENTATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTURAL BALANCE; POSTURE; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TREMOR; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 79955090870     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2010.07.017     Document Type: Article

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