Force direction patterns promote whole body stability even in hip-flexed walking, but not upper body stability in human upright walking - M üller R, Rode C, Aminiaghdam S, Vielemeyer J, Blickhan R.

Directing the ground reaction forces to a focal point above the centre of mass of the whole body promotes whole body stability in human and animal gaits similar to a physical pendulum. Here we show that this is the case in human hip-flexed walking as well....

Source: SafetyLit - December 13, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news