Learning to resist gait-slip falls: Long-term retention in community-dwelling older adults

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 557-564

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Accidental falls; Memory; Postural balance; Rehabilitation; Retention

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BACKWARD LOSS OF BALANCE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; UNSTEADINESS; WALKING SPEED;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; POSTURAL BALANCE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WALKING;

EID: 84859214150     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: 1532821X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2011.10.027     Document Type: Article

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