Variability of Lower Extremity Joint Kinematics During Backward Walking in a Virtual Environment

Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 165-178

  Katsavelis, Dimitrios ^a   Mukherjee, Mukul ^a   Decker, Leslie ^a   Stergiou, Nicholas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Nonlinear analysis; Optic flow; Virtual reality; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; GAIT; HIP; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; KNEE; MALE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISION; WALKING;

ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GAIT; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; REFERENCE VALUES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKING;

EID: 77953092911     PISSN: 10900578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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