walking and/or running is usually one component of the user’s likely tasks. 1 – 4 If a robotic exoskeleton can reduce the metabolic energy expenditure during locomotion at a constant speed, the device could make it easier for users to accomplish their goals with less physical exertion. So far, few
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Energetics of Walking With a Robotic Knee Exoskeleton
Mhairi K. MacLean and Daniel P. Ferris
Vision Is Not Required to Elicit Balance Improvements From Beam Walking Practice
Natalie Richer, Steven M. Peterson, and Daniel P. Ferris
contributions to the control of locomotion . Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 33 , 25 – 33 . 10.1016/j.conb.2015.01.011 Fitts , P.M. ( 1954 ). The information capacity of the human motor system in controlling the amplitude of movement . Journal of Experimental Psychology, 47 , 381 – 391 . 10.1037/h
Brain Activation During Passive and Volitional Pedaling After Stroke
Brice T. Cleland and Sheila Schindler-Ivens
.M. , Swinnen , S.P. , Desloovere , K. , & Duysens , J. ( 2002 ). Effects of tendon vibration on the spatiotemporal characteristics of human locomotion . Experimental Brain Research , 143 ( 2 ), 231 – 239 . PubMed doi:10.1007/s00221-001-0987-3 10.1007/s00221-001-0987-3 11880899 Vlaar , M.P. , Solis
Fatigue-Related Changes in Running Technique and Mechanical Variables After a Maximal Incremental Test in Recreational Runners
Edilson Fernando de Borba, Edson Soares da Silva, Lucas de Liz Alves, Adão Ribeiro Da Silva Neto, Augusto Rossa Inda, Bilal Mohamad Ibrahim, Leonardo Rossato Ribas, Luca Correale, Leonardo Alexandre Peyré-Tartaruga, and Marcus Peikriszwili Tartaruga
Declaration of Helsinki. All participants were part of a running community service project of the Research Group LOCOMOTION—Mechanics and Energetics of Terrestrial Locomotion. Table 1 Descriptive Data—Mean and SD Were Reported Variables Male (n = 12) Female (n = 6) All (N = 18) Age, y 38.3 (16.2) 43.0 (13
What are Fundamental Motor Skills and What is Fundamental About Them?
Karl M. Newell
small group of task categories in infants—namely, locomotion, posture, and object-interaction 2 —are the fundamental motor skills at the task level of description. The progressive emergence of additional motor skills through childhood are interpreted as core developmental activities that have a more
Tapping Into Skeletal Muscle Biomechanics for Design and Control of Lower Limb Exoskeletons: A Narrative Review
Zahra S. Mahdian, Huawei Wang, Mohamed Irfan Mohamed Refai, Guillaume Durandau, Massimo Sartori, and Mhairi K. MacLean
accelerometers and using a Kalman filter to mitigate random sensor noise due to the high rate of loading and impact events. Harper et al 84 developed a wearable shear wave tensiometer with dynamic range to track unconstrained locomotion. A later work combined this with inertial measurement units 85 to measure
Effect of External Work Magnitude on Mechanical Efficiency of Sledge Jumping
Keitaro Seki and Heikki Kyröläinen
Mechanical efficiency in human locomotion has been studied extensively in terms of physiology, which is defined as mechanical work divided by energy expenditure. 1 , 2 Muscle efficiency of concentric action is approximately 25% to 30%, 3 while the whole-body mechanical efficiency occasionally
A Novel Video-Based Direct Observation System for Assessing Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Children and Young Adults
Melanna F. Cox, Greg J. Petrucci Jr., Robert T. Marcotte, Brittany R. Masteller, John Staudenmayer, Patty S. Freedson, and John R. Sirard
main outcomes. For this focal sampling protocol, a new event is recorded each time a participant changes a component of their movement for at least one second. The main outcomes included whole-body movement, locomotion, activity type and the metabolic equivalent (MET) value for the whole-body movement
Electrical Stimulation of Distal Tibial Nerve During Stance Phase of Walking May Reverse Effects of Unilateral Paw Pad Anesthesia in the Cat
Hangue Park, Alexander N. Klishko, Kyunggeune Oh, Celina Zhang, Gina Grenga, Kinsey R. Herrin, John F. Dalton IV, Robert S. Kistenberg, Michel A. Lemay, Mark Pitkin, Stephen P. DeWeerth, and Boris I. Prilutsky
Somatosensory motion-dependent feedback is a critical component of the locomotor control system, and terrestrial legged animals from insects to humans have evolved similar sensory modalities and control mechanisms that provide for stable and efficient locomotion; see recent reviews ( Edwards
The Effects of Wobbling Mass Components on Joint Dynamics During Running
Samuel E. Masters and John H. Challis
The majority of human body mass is due to its soft tissue, 1 with that soft tissue having the potential to move relative to the underlying skeletal structures during locomotion. 2 However, researchers typically assume each human body segment is rigid, thus ignoring intrasegment soft tissue motion
