Origins of balance disorders during a daily living movement in obese: can biomechanical factors explain everything?

Obese people suffer from postural deficits and are more subject to falls than their lean counterpart. To improve prevention and post-fall rehabilitation programs, it seems important to better understand the posturo-kinetic disorders in daily life situations by determining the contribution of some ke...

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Main Authors: Jean-Baptiste Mignardot, Isabelle Olivier, Emmanuel Promayon, Vincent Nougier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3616143?pdf=render

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