Comparison of ground reaction forces and antagonist muscle coactivation during stair walking with ageing

Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 568-580

  Larsen, Anders Holsgaard ^a   Puggaard, Lis ^a   Hämäläinen, Ulpu ^b   Aagaard, Per ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ageing; Muscle coactivation; Reserve capacity; Stair walking

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINETICS; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; VELOCITY; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; WALKING;

EID: 45849114779     PISSN: 10506411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelekin.2006.12.008     Document Type: Article

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