The effect of treadmill walking on the stride interval dynamics of children

Human Movement Science

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 987-998

  Fairley, Jillian A ^a   Sejdić, Ervin ^a   Chau, Tom ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b University of Toronto   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gait Locomotion Stride interval Children; Children; Gait; Locomotion; Stride interval

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; TREADMILL; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GAIT; HAND; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSTURE; REFERENCE VALUES; WALKING;

EID: 78049329675     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2010.07.015     Document Type: Article

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