Effects of fear of falling on muscular coactivation during walking

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 157-161

  Nagai, Koutatsu ^a   Yamada, Minoru ^a   Uemura, Kazuki ^a   Tanaka, Buichi ^b   Mori, Shuhei ^a   Yamada, Yosuke ^c   Aoyama, Tomoki ^a   Ichihashi, Noriaki ^a   Tsuboyama, Tadao ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Tenri Yorodu Soudansho Hospital   (Japan)

^c FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coactivation; Electromyography; Fear of falling; Gait; Walking

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FALLING; FALLS EFFICACY SCALE; FEAR; FEAR OF FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCULAR COACTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; WALKING; WALKING SPEED; ANKLE JOINT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; GAIT; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; MODIFIED FALLS EFFICACY SCALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; STEP LENGTH;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURAL BALANCE; POSTURE; WALKING;

EID: 84864500317     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: 17208319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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