Learning from falling: Retention of fall-resisting behavior derived from one episode of laboratory-induced slip training

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2392-2393

  Bhatt, Tanvi ^a   Yang, Feng ^a   Pai, Yi Chung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FALL RISK; FALLING; HUMAN; LEARNING STYLE; LETTER; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; WALKING SPEED;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LEARNING;

EID: 84055218582     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03708.x     Document Type: Letter

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