Effect of treadmill walking on the stride interval dynamics of human gait

Gait and Posture

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 431-435

  Chang, Matthew D ^a,b   Shaikh, Sameer ^a,c   Chau, Tom ^a,b  

^a University of Toronto   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Detrended fluctuation analysis; Gait; Handrail; Overground; Stride dynamics; Stride interval; Treadmill

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREADMILL; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ALGORITHMS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; POSTURAL BALANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349260128     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.06.017     Document Type: Article

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