Gait & Posture
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 464-468 , November 2009

Effects of physical guidance on short-term learning of walking on a narrow beam

  • Antoinette Domingo

      Affiliations

    • School of Kinesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: School of Kinesiology, 401 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2214, USA. Tel.: +1 734 647 3871; fax: +1 734 936 1925.
    • ,
  • Daniel P. Ferris

      Affiliations

    • School of Kinesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Received 11 February 2009 ,Revised 19 June 2009 ,Accepted 3 July 2009.

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☆ A portion of the data presented in this study was also published as an abstract in the Proceedings of the North American Congress on Biomechanics, August 5–9, 2008, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

PII: S0966-6362(09)00201-X

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.07.114

Gait & Posture
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 464-468 , November 2009

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