Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 2 , Pages 180-184 , February 2010

Visuomotor adaptation of voluntary step initiation in older adults

  • Shih-Chiao Tseng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Graduate Program in Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA
    • ,
  • Steven J. Stanhope

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health, Nutrition & Exercise Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
    • ,
  • Susanne M. Morton

      Affiliations

    • Graduate Program in Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Graduate Program in Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 1-252 Medical Education Building, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. Tel.: +1 319 335 6842; fax: +1 319 335 9707.

Received 8 May 2009 ,Revised 24 September 2009 ,Accepted 5 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.10.001

Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 2 , Pages 180-184 , February 2010

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