Back and neck muscle activity in healthy adults during barefoot walking and walking in conventional and flexible shoes

Footwear Science

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 159-167

  Wirth, Brigitte ^a   Hauser, Fabian ^a   Mueller, Roland ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

back muscles; barefoot; footwear; kinematic gait parameters; muscle activity; neck muscles

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS;

BACK MUSCLES; BAREFOOT; FOOTWEAR; GAIT PARAMETERS; MUSCLE ACTIVITIES; NECK MUSCLES;

MUSCLE;

EID: 84859393730     PISSN: 19424280     EISSN: 19424299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19424280.2011.633104     Document Type: Article

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