Relative and absolute reliability of the new "Step-Ex" step-execution test in elderly people with and without balance problems

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 34, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 1986-1992

  Halvarsson, Alexandra ^a,b   Franzén, Erika ^a,b   Olsson, Elisabeth ^a,b   Ståhle, Agneta ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aging; Balance control; Falls; Step Ex; Stepping

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EVALUATION; EXERCISE TEST; FALLING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SWEDEN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; POSTURAL BALANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWEDEN; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866890845     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2012.665129     Document Type: Article

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