Does load carrying influence sagittal plane locomotive stability?

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 620-627

  Arellano, Christopher J ^a   Layne, Charles S ^a   O'Connor, Daniel P ^a   Scott Pandorf, Melissa ^a   Kurz, Max J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Eigenvalue; Gait; Load carriage; Locomotion; Poincar ; Walking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAIT; HEEL; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; JOINT STABILITY; KINEMATICS; KNEE; LEG MOVEMENT; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; LOCOMOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; STANDING; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING; ALGORITHM; BIOMECHANICS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; LEG; PHYSIOLOGY; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; GAIT; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; LOWER EXTREMITY; POSTURAL BALANCE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 66149091192     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31818a0ea4     Document Type: Article

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