Clinical measures are feasible and sensitive to assess balance and gait capacities in older persons with mild to moderate Intellectual Disabilities

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 276-285

  Enkelaar, Lotte ^a   Smulders, Ellen ^a   van Schrojenstein Lantman de Valk, Henny ^a   Weerdesteyn, Vivian ^a,b   Geurts, Alexander C H ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SINT MAARTENSKLINIEK   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Balance; Clinical measures; Gait; Intellectual Disabilities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BERG BALANCE SCALE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL REACH TEST; GAIT; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE LEG STANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEN METER WALKING TEST; TIMED UP AND GO TEST;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; POSTURAL BALANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84866169729     PISSN: 08914222     EISSN: 18733379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2012.08.014     Document Type: Article

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