Comparison of kinematic and kinetic methods for computing the vertical motion of the body center of mass during walking

Human Movement Science

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 597-610

  Gard, Steven A ^a,b,c   Miff, Steve C ^a,b   Kuo, Arthur D ^d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Center of mass; Gait analysis; Human movement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY MOVEMENT; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KINEMATICS; KINETICS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; SACRUM; STANDARD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WALKING SPEED;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MASS INDEX; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; WALKING;

EID: 1642482764     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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