Effects of load carriage, load position, and walking speed on energy cost of walking

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 329-335

  Abe, Daijiro ^a   Yanagawa, Kazumasa ^b   Niihata, Shigemitsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ASIA   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Energy cost of walking; Load carriage; Load position; Walking speed

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; LOADS (FORCES); MUSCLE; TORQUE;

ENERGY COSTS; LOAD CARRIGE; LOAD POSITION; WALKING;

ERGONOMICS;

ADULT; BACK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY COST; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ERGONOMICS; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; POSITION; REVIEW; STEADY STATE; TORQUE; TREADMILL; WALKING; WALKING SPEED; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 2542435941     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2004.03.008     Document Type: Article

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