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Mechanical Work as an Indirect Measure of Subjective Costs Influencing Human Movement

To descend a flight of stairs, would you rather walk or fall? Falling seems to have some obvious disadvantages such as the risk of pain or injury. But the preferred strategy of walking also entails a cost for the use of active muscles to perform negative work. The amount and distribution of work a p...

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Autores principales: Zelik, Karl E., Kuo, Arthur D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3286468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22383998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031143