Dynamic balance during human movement: measurement and control mechanisms

RR Neptune, A Vistamehr - Journal of …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Walking can be exceedingly complex to analyze due to highly nonlinear multibody
dynamics, nonlinear relationships between muscle excitations and resulting muscle forces …

Review and perspective: neuromechanical considerations for predicting muscle activation patterns for movement

LH Ting, SA Chvatal, SA Safavynia… - … journal for numerical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Muscle coordination may be difficult or impossible to predict accurately based on
biomechanical considerations alone because of redundancy in the musculoskeletal system …

Linking whole-body angular momentum and step placement during perturbed human walking

JK Leestma, PR Golyski, CR Smith… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
Human locomotion is remarkably robust to environmental disturbances. Previous studies
have thoroughly investigated how perturbations influence body dynamics and what recovery …

Plantar somatosensory restoration enhances gait, speed perception, and motor adaptation

D Kim, R Triolo, H Charkhkar - Science robotics, 2023 - science.org
Lower limb loss is a major insult to the body's nervous and musculoskeletal systems.
Despite technological advances in prosthesis design, artificial limbs are not yet integrated …

Effects of walking speed on the step-by-step control of step width

KH Stimpson, LN Heitkamp, JS Horne, JC Dean - Journal of biomechanics, 2018 - Elsevier
Young, healthy adults walking at typical preferred speeds use step-by-step adjustments of
step width to appropriately redirect their center of mass motion and ensure mediolateral …

Relationships between frontal-plane angular momentum and clinical balance measures during post-stroke hemiparetic walking

CR Nott, RR Neptune, SA Kautz - Gait & posture, 2014 - Elsevier
Stroke has significant impact on dynamic balance during locomotion, with a 73% incidence
rate for falls post-stroke. Current clinical assessments often rely on tasks and/or …

Factors leading to falls in transfemoral prosthesis users: a case series of sound-side stumble recovery responses

ME Eveld, ST King, KE Zelik, M Goldfarb - Journal of NeuroEngineering …, 2022 - Springer
Background Transfemoral prosthesis users' high fall rate is related to increased injury risk,
medical costs, and fear of falling. Better understanding how stumble conditions (eg …

Muscle contributions to frontal plane angular momentum during walking

RR Neptune, CP McGowan - Journal of biomechanics, 2016 - Elsevier
The regulation of whole-body angular momentum is important for maintaining dynamic
balance during human walking, which is particularly challenging in the frontal plane. Whole …

Correlations between measures of dynamic balance in individuals with post-stroke hemiparesis

A Vistamehr, SA Kautz, MG Bowden… - Journal of biomechanics, 2016 - Elsevier
Mediolateral balance control during walking is a challenging task in post-stroke hemiparetic
individuals. To detect and treat dynamic balance disorders, it is important to assess balance …

Foot contact forces can be used to personalize a wearable robot during human walking

M Jacobson, P Kantharaju, H Jeong, JK Ryu, JJ Park… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Individuals with below-knee amputation (BKA) experience increased physical effort when
walking, and the use of a robotic ankle-foot prosthesis (AFP) can reduce such effort. The …