Nintendo Wii Balance Board is sensitive to effects of visual tasks on standing sway in healthy elderly adults

Gait and Posture

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 605-608

  Koslucher, Frank ^a   Wade, Michael G ^a   Nelson, Brent ^b   Lim, Kelvin ^b   Chen, Fu Chen ^c   Stoffregen, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aging; Posture; Visual performance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CENTER OF PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; POSTURAL BALANCE; POSTURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VIDEO GAMES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84864370844     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: 18792219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2012.05.027     Document Type: Article

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