Obstacle clearance and prevention from falling in the bipedally walking Japanese monkey, Macaca fuscata

Age and Ageing

Volumn 35, Issue SUPPL.2, 2006, Pages

  Mori, Futoshi ^a,b   Nakajima, Katsumi ^c   Tachibana, Atsumichi ^b   Mori, Shigemi ^b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anticipatory; Bipedal locomotion; Obstacle clearance; Reactive adjustments; Stumbling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANKLE; ANTICIPATION; BODY POSTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FALLING; GAIT; HIP; JOINT MOBILIZATION; KINEMATICS; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREADMILL; VELOCITY; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGING; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FOOT; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MACACA; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NEURONS; POSTURE; WALKING;

ANIMALIA; MACACA FUSCATA; PRIMATES;

EID: 33750627987     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afl079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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