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A systematic review of gait perturbation paradigms for improving reactive stepping responses and falls risk among healthy older adults

BACKGROUND: Falls are a leading cause of injury among older adults and most often occur during walking. While strength and balance training moderately improve falls risk, training reactive recovery responses following sudden perturbations during walking may be more task-specific for falls prevention...

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Autores principales: McCrum, Christopher, Gerards, Marissa H. G., Karamanidis, Kiros, Zijlstra, Wiebren, Meijer, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5335723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28270866
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11556-017-0173-7