Frequency domain characteristics of ground reaction forces during walking of young and elderly females

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 615-617

  Stergiou, Nicholas ^a   Giakas, Giannis ^b   Byrne, Jennifer E ^a   Pomeroy, Valerie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Frequency domain analysis; Ground reaction forces; Walking

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; PATIENT TREATMENT;

GROUND REACTION FORCES;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCE; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; AGED; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0036803206     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0033(02)00072-4     Document Type: Article

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