Sensitivity to change and responsiveness of four balance measures for community-dwelling older adults

Physical Therapy

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 388-397

  Pardasaney, Poonam K ^a,b   Latham, Nancy K ^a   Jette, Alan M ^a   Wagenaar, Robert C ^b   Ni, Pengsheng ^a   Slavin, Mary D ^a   Bean, Jonathan F ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURAL BALANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 84859187140     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20100398     Document Type: Article

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