Overestimation of stability limits leads to a high frequency of falls in patients with Parkinson's disease
- 1 April 2007
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Clinical Rehabilitation
- Vol. 21 (4) , 357-361
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0269215507073346
Abstract
Objectives : To test a hypothesis that patients with Parkinson's disease may not notice discrepancies between their perceived and actual stability limits and cannot keep their centre of gravity within the stability region.Keywords
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