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Adaptation Of Human Locomotion And Unilateral Limb Loading During Different Inclination Treadmill Walking, Yuhang Zhang
Adaptation Of Human Locomotion And Unilateral Limb Loading During Different Inclination Treadmill Walking, Yuhang Zhang
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Human locomotion is adaptive in any external environment or different terrains, which has been widely investigated. For example, people can walk at different walking speeds in each leg on a split-belt treadmill. However, human locomotor behaviors are passively adapted during the split-belt treadmill walking. Therefore, the knowledge of how humans actively adjust the flexibility of locomotion is limited by using the split-belt treadmill. To address this gap, this study investigated the flexibility of locomotion by using a 4-lb ankle weight on the dominant leg to induce the asymmetric walking pattern when walking on the inclined, declined, and level treadmill. Twenty …