The effect of muscle fatigue on the last stride before stepping down a curb

Gait and Posture

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 542-546

  Barbieri, Fabio Augusto ^a,b   Lee, Yun Ju ^b,c   Gobbi, Lilian Teresa Bucken ^a   Pijnappels, Mirjam ^b   Van Dieën, Jaap H ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Muscle fatigue; Stepping down; Variability; Walking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HIP; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; KNEE; LIMB MOVEMENT; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; GAIT; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875604908     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: 18792219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2012.09.015     Document Type: Article

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