Changes in gait patterns in 10-year-old boys with increasing loads when walking on a treadmill

Gait and Posture

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 254-259

  Hong, Youlian ^a   Brueggemann, Gert Peter ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Backpack; Blood pressure; Children; Gait; Heart rate; Load carriage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; GAIT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TREADMILL ERGOMETRY; WEIGHT BEARING; WORKLOAD;

BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; GAIT; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; WALKING;

EID: 0034011541     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-6362(00)00055-2     Document Type: Article

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