title: Aging and variability of voluntary contractions.
abstract: Older adults exhibit greater motor variability, which impairs their accuracy and function, compared with young adults. Low-intensity training that emphasizes muscle coordination reduces variability in older adults. Furthermore, a low amount of visual feedback minimizes age-associated differences in variability. We hypothesize that an intervention that combines muscle coordination and reduced visual feedback would be advantageous to improve motor control in older adults.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. eachristou@ufl.edu
authors.forename: Evangelos A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Christou
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D056228:Feedback, Sensory / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*