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Modular footwear that partially offsets downhill or uphill grades minimizes the metabolic cost of human walking

Walking on different grades becomes challenging on energetic and muscular levels compared to level walking. While it is not possible to eliminate the cost of raising or lowering the centre of mass (COM), it could be possible to minimize the cost of distal joints with shoes that offset downhill or up...

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Autores principales: Antonellis, Prokopios, Frederick, Cory M., Gonabadi, Arash Mohammadzadeh, Malcolm, Philippe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7062060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32257319
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191527