Sensitivity of trunk variability and stability measures to balance impairments induced by galvanic vestibular stimulation during gait

Gait and Posture

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 656-660

  van Schooten, Kimberley S ^a   Sloot, Lizeth H ^a   Bruijn, Sjoerd M ^a   Kingma, Herman ^b   Meijer, Onno G ^a,c   Pijnappels, Mirjam ^a   Van Dieën, Jaap H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c FUJIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gait stability; Galvanic vestibular stimulation; Maximum floquet multipliers; Maximum lyapunov exponents

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; FALLING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; GALVANIC VESTIBULAR TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRUNK; WALKING SPEED;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURAL BALANCE; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955151825     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2011.02.017     Document Type: Article

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