Gait & Posture
Volume 25, Issue 1 , Pages 40-48 , January 2007

Froude number fractions to increase walking pattern dynamic similarities: Application to plantar pressure study in healthy subjects

  • P. Moretto

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire d’Etudes de la Motricité Humaine (EA 3608), Faculté des Sciences du Sport et de l’Education Physique, 59790 Ronchin, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Laboratoire d’Etudes de la Motricité Humaine (EA 3608), Faculté des Sciences du Sport et de l’Education Physique, 9, rue de l’Université, 59790 Ronchin, France. Tel.: +33 3 20 88 73 76; fax: +33 3 20 88 73 63.
    • ,
  • M. Bisiaux

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire d’Etudes de la Motricité Humaine (EA 3608), Faculté des Sciences du Sport et de l’Education Physique, 59790 Ronchin, France
    • ,
  • M.A. Lafortune

      Affiliations

    • Nike Sport Research Laboratory, Beaverton, OR, USA

Received 20 July 2005 ,Revised 17 December 2005 ,Accepted 22 December 2005.

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PII: S0966-6362(06)00005-1

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2005.12.010

Gait & Posture
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