Coordination of leg swing, thorax rotations, and pelvis rotations during gait: The organisation of total body angular momentum

Gait and Posture

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 455-462

  Bruijn, Sjoerd M ^a   Meijer, Onno G ^a,b   van Dieën, Jaap H ^a   Kingma, Idsart ^a   Lamoth, Claudine J C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b FUJIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Angular momentum; Gait analysis; Gait coordination; Pelvic step; Pelvis thorax relative phase

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; FEMALE; FEMUR; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTOR COORDINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; THORAX; WALKING SPEED;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMECHANICS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GAIT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PELVIS; ROTATION; THORAX;

EID: 44149115588     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2007.05.017     Document Type: Article

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