Displacement of the pelvis during human walking: Experimental data and model predictions

Gait and Posture

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 249-262

  Zijlstra, W ^a,b   Hof, A L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Modeling; Motor control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREADMILL; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 0030667603     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-6362(97)00021-0     Document Type: Article

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