Speeding up or slowing down; how to deal with balance perturbations during gait?
Hak L, Houdijk H, Steenbrink F, Mert A, Beek PJ, van Dieën J.
XXIIIrd Conference of the International Society of Biomechanics, Brussels Belgium 2011.
Speeding up or slowing down; how to deal with balance perturbations during gait?
http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~labo/ISB2011/ISB2011_ScientificProgram_files/71.pdf
In this study, the effect of medio-lateral balance perturbations of walking speed was examined. In addition, the effect of the resulting speed adaptations on local dynamic stability was assessed. Remarkably, subjects did not lower their walking speed, but rather changed the underlying step parameters, step time and step length. Furthermore, local dynamic instability increased with perturbation amplitude.