Quantitative gait analysis in essential tremor reveals impairments that are maintained into advanced age

Gait and Posture

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-70

  Rao, Ashwini K ^a   Gillman, Arthur ^a   Louis, Elan D ^a  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Essential tremor; Gait; Motor control; Tandem walk

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TREADMILL; WALKING SPEED;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBELLUM; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; POSTURAL BALANCE;

EID: 79957442021     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: 18792219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2011.03.013     Document Type: Article

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