Research Catalog

Title

Gait disorders of aging : falls and therapeutic strategies / editors, Joseph C. Masdeu, Lewis Sudarsky, Leslie Wolfson.

Publication

Philadelphia : Lippincott-Raven, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Masdeu, Joseph C.
• Sudarsky, Lewis
• Wolfson, Leslie

Description

xv, 443 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subjects

• Postural Balance > Aged
• Gait disorders in old age
• Posture > Aged
• Accidental Falls > Aged
• Movement Disorders > Aged
• Falls (Accidents) in old age
• Gait > Aged

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Gait and Balance Impairment: An Overview / Lewis Sudarsky, Joseph C. Masdeu and Leslie Wolfson -- 2. Falls in the Elderly: Risk Factors and Prevention / Michael C. Nevitt -- 3. Physiology of Balance, with Special Reference to the Healthy Elderly / Lewis M. Nashner -- 4. Neurophysiology of Locomotion: Recent Advances in the Study of Locomotion / Shigemi Mori -- 5. Balance Decrements in Older Persons: Effects of Age and Disease / Leslie Wolfson -- 6. Changes in Gait with Normal Aging / Rodger J. Elble -- 7. Clinical and Research Methodology for the Study of Posture and Balance / Marjorie H. Woollacott and Anne Shumway-Cook -- 8. Clinical and Research Methodology for the Study of Gait / Rodger J. Elble -- 9. Toward a Nosology of Gait Disorders: Descriptive Classification / C. David Marsden and Philip Thompson -- 10. Clinical Approach to Gait Disorders of Aging: An Overview / Lewis Sudarsky -- 11. Foot and Ankle Disorders Affecting Gait and Balance / Elly Trepman --
• 12. Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy / Raj Murali and Joseph C. Masdeu -- 13. Gait Disorders in Parkinsonism and Other Movement Disorders / Rajesh Pahwa and William C. Koller -- 14. Cerebrovascular Disorders / Joseph C. Masdeu -- 15. A Clinical Approach to Symptomatic Hydrocephalus in the Elderly / Neill R. Graff-Radford and John C. Godersky -- 16. Vestibular and Cerebellar Disorders of Equilibrium and Gait / Hans Christoph Diener and John G. Nutt -- 17. Peripheral Neuropathy: Disorders of Proprioception / Thomas D. Sabin -- 18. The Cautious Gait, Fear of Falling, and Psychogenic Gait Disorders / Lewis Sudarsky and Rein Tideiksaar -- 19. Evaluating the Older Person Who Falls / Mary B. King -- 20. Interventions to Reduce the Multifactorial Risks for Falling / Laurence Z. Rubenstein and Karen R. Josephson -- 21. Physical Intervention for Elderly Patients with Gait Disorders / Margaret Schenkman and Cheryl Riegger-Krugh --
• 22. Improving Balance in Older Adults: Identifying the Significant Training Stimuli / Robert H. Whipple -- 23. Resistance Training / James O. Judge -- 24. Environmental Factors in the Prevention of Falls / Rein Tideiksaar -- App. A. The Axial Mobility Exercise Program / Margaret Schenkman -- App. B. Performance-Oriented Environmental Mobility Screen / Rein Tideiksaar.

ISBN

0316549150

LCCN

97004217

OCLC

• 36352628
• ocm36352628
• SCSB-4782459

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries