External forces during actual acceleration across transition speed

Journal of Applied Biomechanics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 340-350

  Segers, Veerle ^a   Aerts, Peter ^a,b   Lenoir, Matthieu ^a   De Clercq, Dirk ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Center of pressure; Gait transition; Ground reaction forces; Running; Walking

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; KINETICS;

CENTER OF PRESSURE; GAIT TRANSITION; GROUND REACTION FORCES; RUNNING; WALKING;

HYPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; FEMALE; FORCE; GAIT; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HUMAN; KINETICS; NORMAL HUMAN; RUNNING; WALKING;

EID: 55849085743     PISSN: 10658483     EISSN: 15432688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/jab.24.4.340     Document Type: Article

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