Functional correlates of gait and balance difficulty in essential tremor: Balance confidence, near misses and falls

Gait and Posture

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-47

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b,c   Rao, Ashwini K ^d   Gerbin, Marina ^a  

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

^b NONE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance; Confidence; Essential tremor; Falls; Gait

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FALLING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GAIT; HEAD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURAL BALANCE;

EID: 84855971396     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: 18792219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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