Gait & Posture
Volume 26, Issue 2 , Pages 226-230 , July 2007

A method to standardize gait and balance variables for gait velocity

  • Marianne B. van Iersel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Geriatrics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Department of Geriatrics, Internal Code 931, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 24 36 16 772; fax: +31 24 36 17 408.
    • ,
  • Marcel G.M. Olde Rikkert

      Affiliations

    • Department of Geriatrics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • George F. Borm

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Received 13 May 2006 ,Revised 18 August 2006 ,Accepted 8 September 2006.

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PII: S0966-6362(06)00194-9

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2006.09.002

Gait & Posture
Volume 26, Issue 2 , Pages 226-230 , July 2007

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