Prolonged weight-shift and altered spinal coordination during sit-to-stand in practitioners of the Alexander Technique

Gait and Posture

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 496-501

  Cacciatore, Timothy W ^a,b   Gurfinkel, Victor S ^a   Horak, Fay B ^a   Day, Brian L ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alexander Technique; Motor processes; Muscle tone; Posture; Sit to stand

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCE; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT STIFFNESS; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; SPINAL COORDINATION; STANDING; TEACHER; THORACIC SPINE;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FOOT; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; POSTURAL BALANCE; SPINE;

EID: 80053571877     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: 18792219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2011.06.026     Document Type: Article

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