Altered control strategy between leading and trailing leg increases knee adduction moment in the elderly while descending stairs

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 706-711

  Karamanidis, Kiros ^a   Arampatzis, Adamantios ^b,c  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Centre of Sport Science and Sport Medicine Berlin CSSB   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Gait; Knee joint loading; Osteoarthritis

Indexed keywords

3-D KINEMATICS; AGING; ANKLE JOINT MOMENTS; ANKLE JOINTS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DOUBLE SUPPORT PHASE; FORCE PLATE; GAIT; GROUND REACTION FORCES; KNEE ADDUCTION MOMENT; KNEE FLEXIONS; KNEE JOINT LOADING; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MECHANICAL LOADS; MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM; OLDER ADULTS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; SINGLE-SUPPORT PHASE; SUPPORT PHASE; TIBIO-FEMORAL JOINTS;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; KINEMATICS; LOADING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; STAIRS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

ADDUCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAIT; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; KINEMATICS; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WEIGHT BEARING;

AGED; AGING; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURAL BALANCE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TORQUE; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951720295     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2010.10.040     Document Type: Article

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