Alterations in postural control during the world's most challenging mountain ultra-marathon

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Degache, Francis ^a   Van Zaen, Jérôme ^b   Oehen, Lukas ^c   Guex, Kenny ^a   Trabucchi, Pietro ^d   Millet, Gégoire ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; ATTENTION; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; CENTER OF PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL DISPLACEMENT; CRITICAL TIME; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DOWNHILL; GAIT; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MARATHON RUNNER; MOUNTAIN ULTRA MARATHON; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTURAL CONTROL ALTERATION; RUNNING; SHORT TERM EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP TIME; STANDING; UNSTABLE GROUND; UPHILL;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ATHLETES; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EUROPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXERTION; POSTURAL BALANCE; POSTURE; RUNNING; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

EID: 84898606187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084554     Document Type: Article

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