Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 465-472 , April 2010

Trunk sway reductions in young and older adults using multi-modal biofeedback

  • Justin R. Davis

      Affiliations

    • School of Human Kinetics, University of British Columbia, Canada
    • ,
  • Mark G. Carpenter

      Affiliations

    • School of Human Kinetics, University of British Columbia, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Neural Control of Posture and Movement Laboratory. Osborne Centre, Room 213, 6108 Thunderbird Blvd. Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z3. Tel.: +1 604 822 8614; fax: +1 604 822 9451.
    • ,
  • Roger Tschanz

      Affiliations

    • Technical University of Applied Sciences, Biel, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Simon Meyes

      Affiliations

    • Technical University of Applied Sciences, Biel, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Daniel Debrunner

      Affiliations

    • Technical University of Applied Sciences, Biel, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Juergen Burger

      Affiliations

    • Technical University of Applied Sciences, Biel, Switzerland
    • ,
  • John H.J. Allum

      Affiliations

    • Div of Audiology and Neurootology, Dept of ORL, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Received 2 April 2009 ,Revised 26 January 2010 ,Accepted 1 February 2010.

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PII: S0966-6362(10)00041-X

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.02.002

Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 465-472 , April 2010

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