Task-specific training reduces trip-related fall risk in women

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2410-2414

  Grabiner, Mark D ^a   Bareither, Mary Lou ^a   Gatts, Strawberry ^a   Marone, Jane ^a   Troy, Karen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK; RISK REDUCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POSTURAL BALANCE; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84870064196     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e318268c89f     Document Type: Article

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