Braking and propulsive impulses increase with speed during accelerated and decelerated walking

Gait and Posture

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 562-567

  Peterson, Carrie L ^a   Kautz, Steven A ^b,c   Neptune, Richard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground reaction forces; Joint moments; Non steady state; Step frequency; Step length

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; DECELERATION; FEMALE; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; KNEE; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY; WALKING SPEED;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; DECELERATION; FEMALE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; WALKING;

EID: 79955147480     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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