The effect of military load carriage on ground reaction forces

Gait and Posture

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 611-614

  Birrell, Stewart A ^a   Hooper, Robin H ^a   Haslam, Roger A ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gait; Ground reaction force; Load carriage; Military; Rifle carriage

Indexed keywords

ARMY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; FIREARM; GAIT; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INJURY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOE; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; UPPER EXTREMITY; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 34548674429     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2006.12.008     Document Type: Article

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