Commentary: Older adults can improve compensatory stepping with repeated postural perturbations

Front Aging Neurosci. 2016 May 10:8:111. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2016.00111. eCollection 2016.

¹ Department of Human Movement Science, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre+Maastricht, Netherlands; Institute of Movement and Sport Gerontology, German Sport University CologneCologne, Germany.
² Department of Human Movement Science, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre+ Maastricht, Netherlands.
³ Department of Human Movement Science, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre+Maastricht, Netherlands; Faculty of Health, Research Centre for Autonomy and Participation of Persons with a Chronic Illness, Zuyd University of Applied SciencesHeerlen, Netherlands; Department of Family Medicine, CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University Medical Centre+Maastricht, Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Human Movement Science, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre+Maastricht, Netherlands; CIRO, Department of Research and EducationHorn, Netherlands.

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Keywords: adaptation potential; age; balance; dynamic stability; falls; locomotion; motor control.