Influence of treadmill acceleration on actual walk-to-run transition

Gait and Posture

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 52-56

  Van Caekenberghe, I ^a   Segers, V ^a   De Smet, K ^a   Aerts, P ^a,b   De Clercq, D ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Biomechanics; Gait transition; Kinematics; Spatiotemporal; Treadmill; Walk to run transition; WRT

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING;

ACCELERATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; RUNNING; VIDEO RECORDING; WALKING;

EID: 73149116412     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.08.244     Document Type: Article

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