Variation in Foot Strike Patterns during Running among Habitually Barefoot Populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hatala, Kevin G ^a,b   Dingwall, Heather L ^b   Wunderlich, Roshna E ^c   Richmond, Brian G ^b,d  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; FOOT STRIKE PATTERN; FORCE; FOREFOOT; GAIT; GREATER TROCHANTER; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KENYA; KINEMATICS; LEG LENGTH; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RUNNING; VELOCITY;

BIOMECHANICS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOOT; FOREFOOT, HUMAN; HUMANS; KENYA; KINETICS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RUNNING; SHOES; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

ELAGATIS;

EID: 84872244718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052548     Document Type: Article

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