Gait & Posture
Volume 25, Issue 1 , Pages 99-105 , January 2007

Modification of human postural responses to soleus muscle vibration by rotation of visual scene

  • Nada Adamcova
    • ,
  • Frantisek Hlavacka

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Institute of Normal and Pathological Physiology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Sienkiewiczova 1, SK 81371 Bratislava, Slovakia. Tel.: +421 2 52926275; fax: +421 2 52968516.

Received 17 March 2005 ,Revised 12 January 2006 ,Accepted 23 January 2006.

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PII: S0966-6362(06)00040-3

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2006.01.008

Gait & Posture
Volume 25, Issue 1 , Pages 99-105 , January 2007

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