Differences in lower-extremity muscular activation during walking between healthy older and young adults

Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1085-1091

  Schmitz, Anne ^a   Silder, Amy ^a   Heiderscheit, Bryan ^a,b   Mahoney, Jane ^b   Thelen, Darryl G ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; EMG; Gait; Lower extremity; Muscles; Speed

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAIT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINETICS; KNEE; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RIGIDITY; SOLEUS MUSCLE; STANDING; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VELOCITY; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

AGED; AGING; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350575431     PISSN: 10506411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelekin.2008.10.008     Document Type: Article

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