A comparison of the movement characteristics between the kneeling gait and the normal gait in healthy adults

Gait and Posture

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 402-407

  Kurayama, Taichi ^a,b   Tadokoro, Yusuke ^a   Fujimoto, Shuhei ^a   Komiya, Zen ^b   Yoshida, Susumu ^c   Chakraborty, Sudesna ^b   Matsuzawa, Daisuke ^b   Shimizu, Eiji ^b   Kondo, Kunitsugu ^a   Otaka, Yohei ^a,d  

^a Tokyo Bay Rehabilitation Hospital   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c CHIBA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Center of mass displacement; COM trajectory; Energy efficiency; Hip strategy; Stroke rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSITION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; GAIT; GREATER TROCHANTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISCHIAL TUBEROSITY; KNEELING GAIT; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; SENSOR; STANDING; TIBIA TUBEROSITY; TREADMILL; TRUNK; UNSTRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE MOVEMENT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURAL BALANCE; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; STROKE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875377100     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: 18792219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2012.08.009     Document Type: Article

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