Gait & Posture
Volume 26, Issue 2 , Pages 208-213 , July 2007

Practicing recovery from a simulated trip improves recovery kinematics after an actual trip

  • Kathleen A. Bieryla

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, United States
    • ,
  • Michael L. Madigan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Virginia Tech Center for Gerontology, Mail Code 0219, Blacksburg, VA 24061, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 540 231 1215
    • ,
  • Maury A. Nussbaum

      Affiliations

    • Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Virginia Tech Center for Gerontology, Virginia Tech, United States

Received 8 May 2006 ,Revised 16 June 2006 ,Accepted 8 September 2006.

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PII: S0966-6362(06)00191-3

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2006.09.010

Gait & Posture
Volume 26, Issue 2 , Pages 208-213 , July 2007

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