Mind your step: Metabolic energy cost while walking an enforced gait pattern

Gait and Posture

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 544-549

  Wezenberg, D ^a,b   de Haan, A ^a   van Bennekom, C A M ^b   Houdijk, H ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Heliomare Rehabilitation Research and Development   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Balance control; Gait; Metabolic energy cost; Perturbation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY COST; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREADMILL; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ENERGY METABOLISM; GAIT; HUMANS; POSTURAL BALANCE; WALKING;

EID: 79955160091     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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