Effects of reduced plantar cutaneous afferent feedback on locomotor adjustments in dynamic stability during perturbed walking

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2194-2200

  Höhne, Angela ^a   Stark, Christian ^b   Brüggemann, Gert Peter ^a   Arampatzis, Adamantios ^c,d  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Dreifaltigkeits Krankenhaus   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Centre for Sports Science and Sports Medicine Berlin (CSSB)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Falling risk; Feedforward feedback control; Sensory afferent feedback; Walking

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR-POSTERIOR DIRECTIONS; CENTRE OF MASS; CUTANEOUS SENSATION; EIGENFREQUENCY; FALLING RISK; FEED-BACK CORRECTION; FEEDFORWARD/FEEDBACK CONTROL; GAIT PROTOCOLS; HARD SURFACE; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; INTRADERMAL INJECTION; INVERTED PENDULUM; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; SENSORY AFFERENT FEEDBACK; SURFACE ALTERATION; VERTICAL PROJECTION; WALKING;

EXTRAPOLATION; GAIT ANALYSIS;

STABILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; FEMALE; FOOT SOLE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SKIN SENSATION; WALKING;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; POSTURAL BALANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960709913     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2011.06.012     Document Type: Article

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