Feasibility of a gait retraining strategy for reducing knee joint loading: Increased trunk lean guided by real-time biofeedback

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 943-947

  Hunt, Michael A ^a,b   Simic, Milena ^b   Hinman, Rana S ^b   Bennell, Kim L ^b   Wrigley, Tim V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biofeedback; Gait; Knee osteoarthritis

Indexed keywords

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FRONTAL PLANES; GAIT; GAIT PATTERN; HIP JOINTS; JOINT MOMENT; KNEE ADDUCTION MOMENT; KNEE JOINT LOADING; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LEAN ANGLE; NORMAL WALKING;

BIOFEEDBACK; BIOMECHANICS; GAIT ANALYSIS;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

ADDUCTION; ADULT; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GAIT; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE LIGAMENT; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE DISEASE; TRAINING; TRUNK; WALKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; GAIT; HIP; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE; KNEE JOINT; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; SPINE; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 79952043100     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2010.11.027     Document Type: Article

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