Do Older Adults Select Appropriate Motor Strategies in a Stepping-Down Paradigm?

Selecting motor strategies in daily life tasks requires a perception of the task requirements as well as of one's own physical abilities. Age-related cognitive and physical changes may affect these perceptions. This might entail that some older adults select inappropriate movement strategies wh...

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Main Authors: Nick Kluft, Sjoerd M. Bruijn, Jaap H. van Dieën, Mirjam Pijnappels
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphys.2018.01419/full