Interaction between age and gait velocity in the amplitude and timing of antagonist muscle coactivation

Gait and Posture

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 558-564

  Hortobágyi, Tibor ^a   Solnik, Stanislaw ^a   Gruber, Allison ^a   Rider, Patrick ^a   Steinweg, Ken ^b   Helseth, Joseph ^a   DeVita, Paul ^a  

^a Biomechanics Laboratory   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EMG; Locomotion; Neural control; Reciprocal inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; GAIT; GASTROCNEMIUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT; MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT MOBILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63249116571     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2008.12.007     Document Type: Article

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