Open AccessIndividual and generalized lower limb muscle activity and kinematic adaptations during walking on an unpredictable irregular surface
Author(s) -
Apps Charlotte,
Ding Rui,
Cheung Jason TakMan,
Sterzing Thorsten
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of foot and ankle research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.763
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 1757-1146
DOI - 10.1186/1757-1146-7-s1-a3
Subject(s) - kinematics , physical medicine and rehabilitation , gait , biomechanics , adaptation (eye) , lower limb , rehabilitation , medicine , constraint (computer aided design) , physical therapy , anatomy , psychology , mathematics , geometry , neuroscience , surgery , physics , classical mechanics
Background Natural surfaces are irregular but limited studies have researched their effect on gait because of the predominantly flat surfaces where measurements are taken [1]. Regularly, biomechanical research also tends to group mean results of many subjects together to find the generalised response to a constraint. This often hides individual adaptation strategies [2]. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to analyse biomechanical responses during walking on an unpredictable irregular surface (UIS), at the individual level.