Overweightness and walking / Caleb I. Black, editor.
Material type: TextSeries: Public health in the 21st century seriesPublisher: New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2010Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781616685164
- 1616685166
- 616.3/98 22
- RC628
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English.
OVERWEIGHTNESS AND WALKING; OVERWEIGHTNESS AND WALKING ; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; ANGULAR MOMENTUM AS A METRIC OF WALKING ; INTRODUCTION; ANGULAR MOMENTUM: THE PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS; Computation of Angular Momentum from Experimental Data ; ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF ADULTS; Angular Momentum of Walking at CWS; Angular Momentum Cancellation; Summary ; EFFECTS OF WALKING SPEED ON ANGULAR MOMENTUM; Angular Momentum at Different Walking Speeds ; Principal Component Analysis ; Summary ; CHILDREN WITH CP AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO ENERGIES AND WORK ; Work/Energy Computation ; Angular Momenta ; Work/Energy.
EXPERIMENT 3: EFFECTS OF TRANSITORY VESTIBULAR DISTURBANCE ON OLDER ADULTS' ADAPTIVE LOCOMOTIONIntroduction; Methods ; Results and Discussion ; CONCLUSION ; REFERENCES ; ASSESSMENTS BASED ON PLANTAR PRESSURE: EMPHASIS ON ITS USE IN SYMPTOM-FREE POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN ; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; METHODOLOGICAL CONCERNS; Factors Related to the Subject; Factors Related to the Motor Task; Factors Related to the Equipment ; DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS ; PLANTAR PRESSURE ASSESSMENTS IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN ; THE CHARACTERIZATION OF PLANTAR PRESSURE IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN ; FUTURES WORK DIRECTIONS.
Calculation of reactive shearing force S in Th12 VertebraCalculation of Resultant Reactive Force R ; Forces Transferred into Poles during Nordic Walking [3, 4, 8-12, 14] ; Model example no. 2 ; Solution A (Figure 2) Transfer of Forces into the Right-hand Vertical Pole; Solution B (Figure 3) Transfer of forces into the left-hand pole, deflected from the vertical at an acute angle; THE CONCLUSION OF BIOMECHANICAL SOLUTION OF FORCE TRANSFER INTO THE POLES ; EFFECTS OF NORDIC WALKING; Differences in the Walking Methods between Healthy Persons and Patients with Osteoporotic Vertebra Fractures.
REGULATION OF THE WHOLE BODY ANGULAR MOMENTUM DURING THE GAIT CYCLE ; Summary; CONCLUSION ; REFERENCE; THE CONTRIBUTION OF VESTIBULAR INFORMATION TO ADAPTIVE LOCOMOTION IN YOUNG AND OLDER INDIVIDUALS ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION; EXPERIMENT 1: SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTION OF VESTIBULAR PERTURBATION BY ROTATIONAL AND CALORIC STIMULATIONS; Introduction; Methods; Results; Discussion; EXPERIMENT 2: EFFECTS OF VESTIBULAR PERTURBATION ON ADAPTIVE LOCOMOTION IN YOUNG ADULTS ; Introduction ; Methods; Results; Discussion.
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