Minimum foot clearance during walking: Strategies for the minimisation of trip-related falls

Gait and Posture

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 191-198

  Begg, Rezaul ^a   Best, Russell ^a   Dell'Oro, Lisa ^a   Taylor, Simon ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Descriptive statistics; Gait; Minimum foot clearance; Tripping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FALLING; FEMALE; FOOT; GAIT; GEOMETRY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICS; WALKING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; AGED; BIOMECHANICS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOOT; GAIT; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; WALKING;

EID: 33845994018     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2006.03.008     Document Type: Article

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