Biomechanics, Volume 2, Issue 3

In popular fitness modalities, the participants often perform abdominal breathing while maintaining stable or rather unstable as well as inverted body stances that may challenge the respiratory muscles’ activation. This study aimed to examine t...

The coordination of joint moments in the same limb—otherwise known as kinetic interjoint coordination—during gait in patients with hemiparesis remains unclear. This study clarifies the characteristics of kinetic interjoint coordination in...

Stroke survivors are at a relatively higher risk of falling than their healthy counterparts. To identify the key gait characteristics affecting fall risk in this population, this study analyzed the gait kinematics and gait asymmetries for 36 communit...

The lower–extremity system acts like a spring in the running stance phase. Vertical stiffness ($K_{vert}$) and leg stiffness ($K_{leg}$) reflect the whole–body center of mass (COM) and leg–spring system loading and response in running, while...

Walking workstations may counteract sedentarism in working adults; however, performing dual-task walking may affect gait or work performance. The purpose of this study was to examine gait symmetry parameters and work performance while completing a fi...

Background: This study determined whether the knee and ankle muscle extensor forces increase when running with a body-borne load and whether these forces differ between the sexes. Methods: Thirty-six (twenty male and sixteen female) adults had the kn...

Mobility disability is prevalent in aging populations. While existing walking interventions improve aspects related to mobility, meaningful and sustained changes leading to preventing and reversing mobility disability have remained elusive. Split-bel...

This study investigated the feasibility of a perturbation-based balance protocol that incorporates a novel computer-controlled movable platform, the Surefooted Trainer, to induce losses of balance during overground walking under various environmental...

Neuromuscular training (NMT) warm-up programs effectively prevent injuries in youth, but monitoring exercise fidelity is challenging. The purpose of this study was to compare the exercise fidelity as measured via an inertial measurement unit (IMU) wi...

While the importance of optimal two-point and three-point jump-shooting performance for securing the desired game outcome on various levels of basketball competition has been well documented, there is a limited amount of scientific literature on what...