Adaptation of the walking pattern to uphill walking in normal and spinal-cord injured subjects

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 359-368

  Leroux, Alain ^a,b   Fung, Joyce ^a,b   Barbeau, Hugues ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JEWISH REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; EMG; Human walking; Kinematics; Spinal cord injury; Uphill

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; GAIT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HAMSTRING; HIP; HUMAN; KNEE; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THIGH; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TREADMILL; WALKING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFERENCE VALUES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032969749     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050743     Document Type: Article

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