Mechanical energy and effective foot mass during impact loading of walking and running

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1387-1395

  Chi, Kai Jung ^a   Schmitt, Daniel ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective foot mass; Human heel pad; Impact energy; Mechanical energy

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BONE; DAMPING; DEFORMATION; KINEMATICS; STIFFNESS;

FOOT MASS; HEEL PADS; MECHANICAL ENERGY; TRANSIENT FORCES;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MASS; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; ERROR; FOOT; GAIT; HEEL; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; KNEE; LOCOMOTION; LOWER LEG; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; RUNNING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TECHNIQUE; VIDEORECORDING; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELASTICITY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FOOT; GAIT; HEEL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSTURE; RUNNING; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WALKING;

EID: 19744369600     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2004.06.020     Document Type: Article

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