Testing of a tri-instrumented-treadmill unit for kinetic analysis of locomotion tasks in static and dynamic loading conditions

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 404-411

  Paolini, Gabriele ^a   Della Croce, Ugo ^a,b   Riley, Patrick O ^a   Newton, Frederic K ^a   Casey Kerrigan, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coherence function; Force platforms; Gait analysis; Ground reaction force; Treadmill

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; GAIT ANALYSIS; KINETIC THEORY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SHEAR STRESS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CLINICAL GAIT ANALYSIS; LINEARITY TESTS; MEDIO-LATERAL COMPONENTS; SHEAR GROUND REACTION;

EXERCISE EQUIPMENT;

ACCURACY; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; GAIT; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; KINETICS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RUNNING; SHEAR STRENGTH; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREADMILL; VIBRATION; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING;

ACCELERATION; BIOMECHANICS; DATA COLLECTION; DECELERATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EXERCISE TEST; EXERTION; GAIT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KINETICS; LOCOMOTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RUNNING; WALKING;

EID: 33845336167     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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