Motor dual-task effect on gait and task of upper limbs in older adults under specific task prioritization: Pilot study

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 99-106

  Oh Park, Mooyeon ^a,b   Holtzer, Roee ^a   Mahoney, Jeannette ^a   Wang, Cuiling ^a   Raghavan, Preeti ^c   Verghese, Joe ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KESSLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Attention; Task performance and analysis

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PILOT PROJECTS; UPPER EXTREMITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887039949     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: 17208319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40520-013-0014-0     Document Type: Article

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