Dynamic margins of stability during human walking in destabilizing environments

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1053-1059

  McAndrew Young, Patricia M ^a   Wilken, Jason M ^b   Dingwell, Jonathan B ^c  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic stability margins; Perturbations; Pseudo random; Visual; Walking; Walking surface

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC STABILITY MARGIN; PERTURBATIONS; PSEUDO RANDOM; VISUAL; WALKING; WALKING SURFACES;

STABILITY;

WALKING AIDS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WALKING;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; WALKING;

EID: 84858622804     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2011.12.027     Document Type: Article

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