Self-selected gait speed - Over ground versus self-paced treadmill walking, a solution for a paradox

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Plotnik, Meir ^a,b,c   Azrad, Tamar ^a   Bondi, Moshe ^a   Bahat, Yotam ^a   Gimmon, Yoav ^a,d   Zeilig, Gabriel ^a,b   Inzelberg, Rivka ^a,b   Siev Ner, Itzhak ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gait speed; Over ground walking; Self paced treadmill; Virtual reality; Visual flow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREADMILL; VELOCITY; VIRTUAL REALITY; WALKING SPEED; ALGORITHM; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925865294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17430003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12984-015-0002-z     Document Type: Article

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