The association between fear of falling and gait variability in both leg and trunk movements

Gait and Posture

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 123-127

  Sawa, Ryuichi ^a   Doi, Takehiko ^b,c   Misu, Shogo ^d   Tsutsumimoto, Kota ^a,b   Nakakubo, Sho ^a,b   Asai, Tsuyoshi ^e   Yamada, Minoru ^f   Ono, Rei ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER WEST HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e KOBE GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elderly; Fear of falling; Gait

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; FEAR; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRUNK MOVEMENT; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 84901070052     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: 18792219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2014.03.002     Document Type: Article

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