Postural Control in the Older Adult

Functional Reach: A New Clinical Measure of Balance

1990 • 2,743 citations

Central programming of postural movements: adaptation to altered support-surface configurations

1986 • 2,288 citations

Fall risk index for elderly patients based on number of chronic disabilities

1986 • 1,555 citations

A Prospective Study of Postural Balance and Risk of Falling in An Ambulatory and Independent Elderly Population

1994 • 1,263 citations

Risk Factors for Falls in a Community-Based Prospective Study of People 70 Years and Older

1989 • 1,212 citations

Loss of 'Complexity' and Aging

1992 • 1,146 citations

Components of postural dyscontrol in the elderly: A review

1989 • 954 citations

Physiological Factors Associated with Falls in Older Community‐Dwelling Women

1994 • 809 citations

Aging and Posture Control: Changes in Sensory Organization and Muscular Coordination

1986 • 725 citations

Postural Stability and Associated Physiological Factors in a Population of Aged Persons

1991 • 705 citations

Falls in the elderly related to postural imbalance.

1977 • 673 citations

The Relationship of Knee and Ankle Weakness to Falls in Nursing Home Residents: An Isokinetic Study

1987 • 644 citations

Fear of Falling and Postural Performance in the Elderly

1991 • 599 citations

Physiological Factors Associated with Falls in an Elderly Population

1991 • 563 citations

Visual, Vestibular and Somatosensory Contributions to Balance Control in the Older Adult

1989 • 497 citations

Age-related Decline in Proprioception

1984 • 491 citations

Aging and Postural Control

1990 • 444 citations

THE RELATIONSHIP OF POSTURAL SWAY IN STANDING TO THE INCIDENCE OF FALLS IN GERIATRIC SUBJECTS

1982 • 395 citations

Somesthetic Sensitivity in Young and Elderly Humans

1986 • 385 citations

Predictors of Falls Among Elderly People

1989 • 364 citations

Postural Sway During Standing and Unexpected Disturbance of Balance in Random Samples of Men of Different Ages

1985 • 349 citations

Normal Hip and Knee Active Range of Motion: The Relationship to Age

1991 • 343 citations

Age-associated Differences in Sensori-motor Function and Balance in Community Dwelling Women

1994 • 333 citations

Age-related changes in open-loop and closed-loop postural control mechanisms

1995 • 327 citations

Age-Related Changes in Human Posture Control: Sensory Organization Tests

1990 • 302 citations

CLINICAL CORRELATES OF SWAY IN OLD AGE—SENSORY MODALITIES

1982 • 280 citations

Comparison of Static and Dynamic Posturography in Young and Older Normal People

1994 • 279 citations

Stressing the Postural Response

1986 • 249 citations

Stepping Responses of Young and Old Adults to Postural Disturbances: Kinematics

1994 • 232 citations

Are Activity‐Based Assessments of Balance and Gait in the Elderly Predictive of Risk of Falling and/or Type of Fall?

1993 • 227 citations

A dynamic posturography study of balance in healthy elderly

1992 • 222 citations

Postural Control and Age

1993 • 205 citations

Functional Base of Support Decreases With Age

1994 • 196 citations

Influence of Sensory Inputs on Standing Balance in Community-Dwelling Elders with a Recent History of Falling

1992 • 186 citations

Non-skeletal determinants of fractures: the potential importance of the mechanics of falls

1994 • 182 citations

Ranges of postural stability and their changes in the elderly

1994 • 181 citations

Age differences in visual sensory integration

1991 • 175 citations

Sensorimotor Deficits Related to Postural Stability

1985 • 162 citations

Age Related Decline in Postural Control Mechanisms

1989 • 154 citations

Characterization and modeling of postural steadiness in the elderly: a review

1993 • 153 citations

Influence of lateral destabilization on compensatory stepping responses

1996 • 146 citations

The influence of aging and attentional demands on recovery from postural instability

1990 • 145 citations

Early activation of arm muscles follows external perturbation of upright stance

1995 • 144 citations

Task constraints on foot movement and the incidence of compensatory stepping following perturbation of upright stance

1993 • 142 citations

Balance Performance on the Postural Stress Test: Comparison of Young Adults, Healthy Elderly, and Fallers

1990 • 141 citations

Age-Related Changes in Anticipatory Postural Adjustments Associated With Arm Movements

1988 • 139 citations

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1996 • 130 citations

Assessment of balance control in the elderly: major issues

1990 • 122 citations

Clinical Determinants of Biomechanics Platform Measures of Balance in Aged Women

1988 • 119 citations

A Posture Control Model and Balance Test for the Prediction of Relative Postural Stability

1987 • 110 citations

Age, Functional Postural Reflexes, and Voluntary Sway

1989 • 102 citations

Postural Control in Young and Elderly Adults When Stance Is Perturbed: Kinematics

1992 • 94 citations

Do anticipatory postural adjustments precede compensatory stepping reactions evoked by perturbation?

1993 • 88 citations

Spatial Vision and Aging. I: Contrast Sensitivity

1980 • 82 citations

Balance function in elderly people who have and who have not fallen.

1988 • 81 citations

The Difference in Stiffness of the Active Plantarflexors Between Young and Elderly Human Females

1993 • 78 citations

Aging and human performance

1986 • 77 citations

Effects of ageing on human neuromuscular function: implications for exercise.

1992 • 76 citations

Influence of aging on leg muscle reflex responses to stance perturbation

1995 • 71 citations

Postural Control in Young and Elderly Adults When Stance is Challenged: Clinical versus Laboratory Measurements

1993 • 70 citations

DESCRIPTION, CLASSIFICATION AND PREVENTION OF FALLS IN OLD PEOPLE AT HOME

1981 • 66 citations

Age-Related Changes in Postural Responses Preceding Rapid Self-Paced and Reaction Time Arm Movements

1992 • 59 citations

Biomechanical approach to quantifying anticipatory postural adjustments in the elderly

1993 • 50 citations

Influence of Destabilization on the Temporal Characteristics of “Volitional” Stepping

1996 • 43 citations

Spectral characteristics of ageing postural control

1995 • 43 citations

Falls, Motor Dysfunction, and Correlative Neurohistologic Changes in the Elderly

1985 • 37 citations

Modeling Recovery from Stumbles: Preliminary Data on Variable Selection and Classification Efficacy

1992 • 34 citations

Clinical Correlates of Sway in Elderly People Living at Home

1992 • 28 citations

The Aging Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex (VOR) and Adaptive Plasticity

1991 • 23 citations

Fall arrest biomechanics: Sway and stepping responses in healthy young and old adults.

1991 • 2 citations