The effects of sloped surfaces on locomotion: Backward walking as a perturbation

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 3050-3055

  Lay, Andrea N ^a,b   Hass, Chris J ^c   Gregor, Robert J ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward slope walking; Biomechanics; EMG; Kinetics; Neural control

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; IMPACT TESTING; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MUSCLE; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

BACKWARD SLOPE WALKING; EMG ACTIVITY; MUSCLE ACTIVITY; NEURAL CONTROL; UPSLOPE WALKING;

BIPED LOCOMOTION;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FORCE; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; KINETICS; KNEE; LEG; LEG MUSCLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; WALKING;

BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; WALKING;

EID: 34548485595     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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