Newly acquired fear of falling leads to altered eye movement patterns and reduced stepping safety: a case study.

This opportune case study describes visual and stepping behaviours of an 87 year old female (P8), both prior to, and following two falls. Before falling, when asked to walk along a path containing two stepping guides positioned before and after an obstacle, P8 generally visually fixated the first st...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: William R Young, Mark A Hollands
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3504096?pdf=render