Computational evaluation of load carriage effects on gait balance stability

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1127-1136

  Mummolo, Carlotta ^a,b   Park, Sukyung ^c   Mangialardi, Luigi ^b   Kim, Joo H ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Balance stability; Dynamic Gait Measure; dynamic walking; gait stability; load carriage

Indexed keywords

GAIT ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL EVALUATION; DYNAMIC GAITS; DYNAMIC WALKING; FLOQUET MULTIPLIER; GAIT STABILITIES; LOAD CARRIAGE; RELATIVE EFFECTS; ZERO MOMENT POINT;

STABILITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; GAIT BALANCE STABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NOVEL DYNAMIC GAIT MEASURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SS PHASE DURATION; STEP LENGTH; WALKING SPEED; WEIGHT BEARING; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAIT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURAL BALANCE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84951270847     PISSN: 10255842     EISSN: 14768259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2015.1110146     Document Type: Article

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