Biomechanical strategies to accommodate expected slips in different directions during walking

Gait and Posture

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 301-306

  Oliveira, Anderson Souza Castelo ^a,b   Farina, Dario ^c   Kersting, Uwe Gustav ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF BRAZIL   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Balance; EMG; Gait; Motor control; Perturbation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GAIT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HEEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; WALKING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOOT; GAIT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; WALKING;

EID: 84862890923     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: 18792219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2012.03.016     Document Type: Article

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