Impact of railroad ballast type on frontal plane ankle kinematics during walking

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 529-534

  Andres, Robert O ^a   Holt, Kenneth G ^b   Kubo, Masayoshi ^b  

^a Ergonomic Engineering Inc   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Railroad ballast; Rearfoot motion

Indexed keywords

BALLAST (RAILROAD TRACK); KINEMATICS; MOTION ESTIMATION; PERSONNEL; ROCKS; SURFACES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FRONTAL PLANE ANKLE; LINE BALLAST; REARFOOT MOTION; WALKING BALLAST;

ACCIDENTS;

CONCRETE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANKLE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; RAILWAY; ROCK; SHOE; SURFACE PROPERTY; VARIANCE; VELOCITY; WALKING;

EID: 20444460636     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2005.03.001     Document Type: Article

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