The Development of Mature Walking (Hardcover)

This important monograph summarizes a comprehensive study on the maturation of walking in normal children. Research, undertaken at one of the world's leading gait analysis centers, involved over 400 studies on a total of nearly 300 children in ten age-groups from one to seven years. Data are presented on anthropometric measurements; tests of developmental progress; time/distance parameters such as stride length and walking velocity; twelve joint angles on each side measured throughout the gait cycle; dynamic electromyography of phasic activity in seven lower-extremity muscle groups; and force measurements including vertical force, fore/aft shear, medial/lateral shear and torque. At each age, composite joint-angle graphs and time/distance parameters are brought together with film tracings of a representative child in that age group. In addition, advanced methods of statistical analysis have been applied to the joint-angle data to define prediction regions within which ninety-five percent of normal children should lie throughout the gait cycle. Finally, a 'decision tree' is presented from which a fitted age can be inferred for a subject based on non-age-specific data gathered in a motion analysis lab. Practical applications are demonstrated in a chapter devoted to two case studies.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Clinics in Developmental Medicine (Mac Keith Press), 104
Release date:	1988
First published:	1988
Authors:	David Sutherland • Richard Olshen • Edmund Biden • Marilynn Wyatt
Dimensions:	239 x 170 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	277
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-41221-6
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Physiology > Biomechanics, human kinetics Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Human reproduction, growth & development > Human growth & development > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-41221-8
Barcode:	9780521412216

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