Effect of age on center of mass motion during human walking

Gait and Posture

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 217-222

  Hernández, Antonio ^a   Silder, Amy ^a   Heiderscheit, Bryan C ^a,b   Thelen, Darryl G ^a,b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Center of mass; Gait; Lateral balance; Lower extremity

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIOMECHANICS; GAIT; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; POSTURAL BALANCE; WALKING;

EID: 67649336399     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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