Gender differences in pelvic motions and center of mass displacement during walking: Stereotypes quantified

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 453-458

  Smith, Lynnelle K ^a   Lelas, Jennifer L ^a   Kerrigan, D Casey ^b,c  

^a and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG LENGTH; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGE; AGED; BIOMECHANICS; HIP; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WALKING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; GAIT; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 0036599529     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/15246090260137626     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Cutting JE, Proffitt DR, Kozlowski LT. A biomechanical invariant for gait perception. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 1978;4:357.
2. Kerrigan DC, Todd MK, Della Croce U. Gender differences in joint biomechanics during walking: Normative study in young adults. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 1998;77:2.
3. Bhambhani Y, Singh M. Metabolic and cinematographic analysis of walking and running in men and women. Med Sci Sports Exerc 1985;17:131.
4. Richard R, Weber J, Mejjad O, et al. Spatiotemporal gait parameters measured using the Bessou gait analyzer in 79 healthy subjects. Influence of age, stature, and gender. Study Group on Disabilities due to Musculoskeletal Disorders (Groupe de Recherche sur le Handicap de l'Appareil Locomoteur, GRHAL). Rev Rhum [English edition] 1995;62:105.
5. Bhambhani Y, Maikala R. Gender differences during treadmill walking with graded loads: Biomechanical and physiological comparisons. Eur J Appl Physiol 2000;81:75.
6. Sato H, K. I. Gait patterns of Japanese pedestrians. J Hum Ergol 1990;19:13.
7. Finley FR, Cody KA. Locomotive characteristics of urban pedestrians. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1970;51:423.
8. Saunders JBD, Inman VT, Eberhart HD. The major determinants in normal and pathological gait. Am J Bone Joint Surg 1953;35:543.
9. Kerrigan DC, Croce UD, Marciello M, Riley PO. A refined view of the determinants of gait: Significance of heel rise. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2000;81:1077.
10. Kerrigan DC, Riley PO, Lelas JL, Della Croce U. Quantification of pelvic rotation as a determinant of gait. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2001;82:217.
11. Della Croce U, Riley PO, Lelas JL, Kerrigan DC. A refined view of the determinants of gait. Gait Posture 2001;14:79.
12. Saini M, Kerrigan DC, Thirunarayan MA, Duff-Raffaele M. The vertical displacement of the center of mass during walking: A comparison of four measurement methods. J Biomech Eng 1998;120:133.
13. Kadaba MP, Ramakrishnan HK, Wootten ME, Gainey J, Gorton G, Cochran GV. Repeatability of kinematic, kinetic, and electromyographic data in normal adult gait. J Orthop Res 1989;7:849.
14. Winter DA. Biomechanics and motor control of human movement, Series 2. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1990:
15. Kadaba MP, Ramakrishnan HK, Wootten ME. Measurement of lower extremity kinematics during level walking. J Orthop Res 1990;8:383.
16. Kerrigan DC, Edelstein JE. Gait. In: Gonzalez EG, Myers SJ, Edelstein JE, Lieberman JS, eds. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001:397.
17. Kerrigan DC, Viramontes BE, Corcoran PJ, LaRaia PJ. Measured versus predicted vertical displacement of the sacrum during gait as a tool to measure biomechanical gait performance. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 1995;74:3.
18. Whittle MW, Levine D. Three-dimensional relationships between the movements of the pelvis and lumbar spine during normal gait. Hum Mov Sci 1999; 18:681.
19. Selles RW, Wagenaar RC, Smit TH, Wuisman PI. Disorders in trunk rotation during walking in patients with low back pain: A dynamical systems approach. Clin Biomech 2001;16:175.
20. Bernhardt M, White AA, Panjabi MM. Biomechanical considerations of spinal stability. In: Herkowitz HN, Garfin SR, Balderston RA, Eismont FJ, Bell GR, Wiesel SW, eds. Biomechanical considerations of spinal stability. Philadelphia: WB Saunders Company, 1999.
21. Nachemson A. Lumbar intradiscal pressure. In: Jayson MI, ed. Lumbar intradiscal pressure. New York: Churchill Livingstone, Inc, 1987.
22. Botte MJ, Garfin SR, Bergmann K, Byrne TP, Vaccaro AR. Spinal orthoses for traumatic and degenerative disease. In: Herkowitz HN, Garfin SR, Balderston RA, Eismont FJ, Bell GR, Wiesel SW, eds. Spinal orthoses for traumatic and degenerative disease. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1999.
23. Kerrigan DC, Todd MK, Riley PO. Knee osteoarthritis and high-heeled shoes. Lancet 1998;351:1399.
24. Kerrigan DC, Lelas JL, Karvosky ME. Women's shoes and knee osteoarthritis. Lancet 2001;357:1097.