Lower-extremity force decrements identify early mobility decline among community-dwelling older adults

Physical Therapy

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1148-1159

  Marko, Moshe ^a   Neville, Christopher G ^a   Prince, Mark A ^b   Ploutz Snyder, Lori L ^c  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DYNAMOMETER; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TORQUE; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MOBILITY LIMITATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRENGTH DYNAMOMETER; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TORQUE;

EID: 84865777286     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20110239     Document Type: Article

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