Interpreting the Need for Initial Support to Perform Tandem Stance Tests of Balance

Physical Therapy

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1316-1328

  Hile, Elizabeth S ^a   Brach, Jennifer S ^a   Perera, Subashan ^b   Wert, David M ^a   VanSwearingen, Jessie M ^a   Studenski, Stephanie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURAL BALANCE;

EID: 84867034461     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20110283     Document Type: Article

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