Deficits in motor response to avoid sudden obstacles during gait in functional walkers poststroke

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 230-239

  Van Swigchem, Roos ^a   Van Duijnhoven, Hanneke J R ^a   Den Boer, Jasper ^a   Geurts, Alexander C ^a,b   Weerdesteyn, Vivian ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SINT MAARTENSKLINIEK   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Falls; Gait analysis; Stroke rehabilitation; Visuomotor; Walking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAIT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEEL; HIP; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; KNEE; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE PATIENT; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TOE; TREADMILL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; BIOMECHANICS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; REACTION TIME; STROKE; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877860661     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968312462070     Document Type: Article

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