Gait & Posture
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 417-423 , November 2009

A paradigm to assess postural responses triggered by anteroposterior translations in healthy seated individuals

  • Nancy St-Onge

      Affiliations

    • Department of Exercise Science, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, Canada H4B 1R6
    • Constance-Lethbridge Rehabilitation Center, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal (CRIR), 7005 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West, Montreal, QC, Canada H4B 1T3
    • Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital Research Site of CRIR, 3205 Place Alton Goldbloom, Laval, QC, Canada H7V 1R2
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Exercise Science, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, QC, Canada H4B 1R6. Tel.: +1 514 848 2424x5805; fax: +1 514 848 8681.
    • ,
  • Julie N. Côté

      Affiliations

    • Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital Research Site of CRIR, 3205 Place Alton Goldbloom, Laval, QC, Canada H7V 1R2
    • Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, 475 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, QC, Canada H2W 1S4
    • ,
  • Isabelle Patenaude

      Affiliations

    • Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital Research Site of CRIR, 3205 Place Alton Goldbloom, Laval, QC, Canada H7V 1R2
    • Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, 475 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, QC, Canada H2W 1S4
    • ,
  • Joyce Fung

      Affiliations

    • Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital Research Site of CRIR, 3205 Place Alton Goldbloom, Laval, QC, Canada H7V 1R2
    • School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, 3654 Promenade Sir William Osler, Montreal, QC, Canada H3G 1Y5

Received 19 November 2007 ,Revised 2 June 2009 ,Accepted 10 June 2009.

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☆ IRB approval: This study was approved by the CRIR Research Ethics Committee (certificate # CRIR 940404).

PII: S0966-6362(09)00162-3

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.06.007

Gait & Posture
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 417-423 , November 2009

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