Balance Performance Is Task Specific in Older Adults.
Balance ability among the elderly is a key component in the activities of daily living and is divided into two types: static and dynamic. For clinicians who wish to assess the risk of falling among their elderly patients, it is unclear if more than one type of balance test can be used to measure the...
| Publicado en: | BioMed Research International Vol. 2017; pp. 1 - 8 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
9/5/2017
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