The effects of stride length and stride frequency on trunk coordination in human walking

Gait and Posture

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 444-449

  Huang, Yunpeng ^a   Meijer, Onno G ^a,b   Lin, Jianhua ^a   Bruijn, Sjoerd M ^b   Wu, Wenhua ^a   Lin, Xiaocong ^a   Hu, Hai ^b,c   Huang, Caihua ^a   Shi, Lei ^c   van Dieën, Jaap H ^b  

^a FUJIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cadence; Gait coordination; Pelvic step; Stride length; Thorax pelvis relative phase

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE MOBILITY; TREADMILL; VELOCITY; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; PELVIS; ROTATION; THORAX; WALKING;

EID: 77951206393     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.01.019     Document Type: Article

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