Frontal plane hip and ankle sensorimotor function, not age, predicts unipedal stance time

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 578-585

  Allet, Lara ^a,b,c   Kim, Hogene ^d   Ashton Miller, James ^d   De Mott, Trina ^b   Richardson, James K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Balance; Diabetic neuropathy; Muscle strength; Proprioception

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ADDUCTION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; FEMALE; HIP; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PAIN THRESHOLD; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STANDING; UNIPEDAL STANCE TIME; AGING; BODY MASS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; INNERVATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANKLE; BODY MASS INDEX; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIP; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTURAL BALANCE; PROPRIOCEPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84860330042     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.22325     Document Type: Article

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