Kinematic strategies for walking across a destabilizing rock surface

Gait and Posture

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 36-42

  Gates, Deanna H ^a   Wilken, Jason M ^a   Scott, Shawn J ^b   Sinitski, Emily H ^a   Dingwell, Jonathan B ^c  

^a Center for the Intrepid   (United States)

^b Moncrief Army Community Hospital   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Gait; Irregular or uneven terrain; Kinematics; Variability; Walking surfaces

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOOT; GAIT; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; KNEE; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FOOT; GAIT; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855933966     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: 18792219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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