Reactive balance adjustments to unexpected perturbations during human walking

Gait and Posture

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 238-248

  Ferber, Reed ^a   Osternig, Louis R ^b   Woollacott, Marjorie H ^b   Wasielewski, Noah J ^b   Lee, Ji Hang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance; Human; Locomotion; Perturbation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; GAIT; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; KNEE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; TRUNK;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM;

EID: 0036890040     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-6362(02)00010-3     Document Type: Article

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