Posterior-anterior body weight shift during stance period studied by measuring sole-floor reaction forces during healthy and hemiplegic human walking

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 399, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 141-146

  Kobayashi, Nobuyoshi ^a   Warabi, Tateo ^a   Kato, Masamichi ^a   Kiriyama, Kiichi ^a   Yoshida, Toshikazu ^a   Chiba, Susumu ^b  

^a Sapporo Yamanoue Hospital   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circular walking; Healthy human subjects; Hemiplegic patient; Sole floor reaction force; Straight walking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOT SOLE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; MALE; METATARSAL BONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING; AGED; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; FOOT; LOCOMOTION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FOOT; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; WALKING;

EID: 33745497923     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.01.042     Document Type: Article

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