Gait & Posture
Volume 28, Issue 3 , Pages 466-471 , October 2008

The effects of age on medio-lateral stability during normal and narrow base walking

  • Matthew A. Schrager

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging—National Institutes of Health, Harbor Hospital Center, 5th Floor, 3001 S. Hanover Street, Baltimore, MD 21225, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Health, Sports, and Exercise Sciences Department, 1301 Sunnyside Avenue, Robinson Center, Room 101A, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, United States. Tel.: +1 785 864 0752; fax: +1 785 864 3343.
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  • Valerie E. Kelly

      Affiliations

    • University of Washington, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Box 356490, Seattle, WA 98195-6490, United States
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  • Robert Price

      Affiliations

    • University of Washington, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Box 356490, Seattle, WA 98195-6490, United States
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  • Luigi Ferrucci

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging—National Institutes of Health, Harbor Hospital Center, 5th Floor, 3001 S. Hanover Street, Baltimore, MD 21225, United States
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  • Anne Shumway-Cook

      Affiliations

    • University of Washington, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Box 356490, Seattle, WA 98195-6490, United States

Received 12 November 2007 ,Revised 21 February 2008 ,Accepted 25 February 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2008.02.009

Gait & Posture
Volume 28, Issue 3 , Pages 466-471 , October 2008

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