Standing in an unstable shoe increases postural sway and muscle activity of selected smaller extrinsic foot muscles

Gait and Posture

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 215-219

  Landry, Scott C ^a,b   Nigg, Benno M ^a   Tecante, Karelia E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electromyography (EMG); EMG circumferential linear array; MBT; Postural sway; Small extrinsic foot muscles; Standing; Unstable shoe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOWER LEG; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERONEUS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; STANDING; UNSTABLE SHOE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURAL BALANCE; SHOES;

EID: 77954659381     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.04.018     Document Type: Article

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