Differences in muscle activity between natural forefoot and rearfoot strikers during running

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 3593-3597

  Yong, Jennifer R ^a   Silder, Amy ^b   Delp, Scott L ^a,b  

^a Dep of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Ground reaction force; Kinematics; Motion analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GAIT ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; MOTION ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC; GAIT KINEMATICS; GASTROCNEMIUS; GROUND REACTION FORCES; MUSCLE ACTIVITIES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; TERMINAL SWING; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR;

MUSCLE;

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOREFOOT STRIKING; GAIT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; KINETICS; KNEE FUNCTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; REARFOOT STRIKING; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; RUNNING; SOLEUS MUSCLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOT; FOREFOOT; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOOT; FOREFOOT, HUMAN; GAIT; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RUNNING;

EID: 84909994381     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2014.10.015     Document Type: Article

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