Increased musculoskeletal stiffness during load carriage at increasing walking speeds maintains constant vertical excursion of the body center of mass

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 465-471

  Holt, Kenneth G ^a,b   Wagenaar, Robert C ^a   LaFiandra, Michael E ^a   Kubo, Masayoshi ^a   Obusek, John P ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c U S ARMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Joint and body stiffness; Load carriage; Walking speed

Indexed keywords

JOINTS (ANATOMY); KINEMATICS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STIFFNESS;

MUSCULOSKELETAL STIFFNESS;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY WEIGHT; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; JOINT MOBILITY; JOINT STIFFNESS; KINEMATICS; KNEE; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREADMILL; VELOCITY; WALKING SPEED; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 0037398328     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(02)00457-8     Document Type: Article

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