Does human gait exhibit comparable and reproducible long-range autocorrelations on level ground and on treadmill?

Gait and Posture

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 369-373

  Bollens, Benjamin ^a,b   Crevecoeur, Frédéric ^a   Nguyen, Virginie ^b   Detrembleur, Christine ^a   Lejeune, Thierry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fractal; Gait; Long range autocorrelations; Reproducibility; Treadmill

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; TREADMILL; WALKING;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURAL BALANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956230645     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.06.011     Document Type: Article

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