Balance control in stepping down expected and unexpected level changes

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 3641-3649

  van Dieën, Jaap H ^a   Spanjaard, Marcel ^a,b   Konemann, Reinier ^a   Bron, Lennart ^a   Pijnappels, Mirjam ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Balance; Falls; Gait

Indexed keywords

GAIT ANALYSIS; HUMAN REHABILITATION ENGINEERING; KINEMATICS;

ANGULAR MOMENTA; BALANCE CONTROL; LEG MOVEMENT;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; AGING; ANKLE; ARTICLE; FALLING; GAIT; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; KINETICS; KNEE; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; WALKING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; LEG; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TORQUE;

EID: 36248951172     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2007.06.009     Document Type: Article

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