Background Gait disorders are common in the elderly populations, and their prevalence increases with age. Abnormal gait has been associated with greater risk for adverse …
Muscles are the actuators that drive human movement. However, despite many decades of work, we still cannot readily assess the forces that muscles transmit during human …
Background Habitual walking speed predicts many clinical conditions later in life, but it declines with age. However, which particular exercise intervention can minimize the age …
Background Age-related gait changes may play a critical role in functional limitations of older adults. Despite sizable interest in determining how age alters walking mechanics …
A Schmitz, A Silder, B Heiderscheit, J Mahoney… - … of electromyography and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Previous studies have identified differences in gait kinetics between healthy older and young adults. However, the underlying factors that cause these changes are not well …
Characterizing the quasi-stiffness and work of lower extremity joints is critical for evaluating human locomotion and designing assistive devices such as prostheses and orthoses …
JR Franz, LC Slane, K Rasske, DG Thelen - Gait & posture, 2015 - Elsevier
The free Achilles tendon (AT) consists of distinct fascicles arising from each of the triceps surae muscles that may give rise to non-uniform behavior during functional tasks such as …
Objective: the present study investigated the effects of walking under different challenges and kinematics and kinetics generated during these activities and how these vary with age …
HJ Lee, S Lee, WH Chang, K Seo… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The aims of this paper were to investigate the effectiveness of a newly developed wearable hip assist robot, that uses an active assist algorithm to improve gait function, muscle effort …