Changes in the gait characteristics caused by external load, ground slope and velocity variation
✍ Scribed by Jerzy Mrozowski; Jan Awrejcewicz
- Book ID
- 104012761
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 693 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1007-5704
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✦ Synopsis
The complexity of the human gait manifests itself by lots of parameters that can evoke different changes in the walking manner. They can be divided into two groups: inherent, like anthropometric features or peculiar psychomotor type, and those related to the external conditions. The aim of the paper is to analyze the influence of three parameters, i.e. external load, ground slope and gait velocity, on the locomotion characteristics and the gait stability. Within the framework of investigations for different values of the mentioned parameters a film registration of the trajectories of selected kinematic nodes during some gait cycles has been carried out. The obtained data was a subject of numerical calculation aimed at extracting the essential properties of the principal gait characteristics.