Influence of carrying unstable load on thoracic kinematics while walking on a curved path
Document Type
Conference Item
Publication Date
11-1-2021
Abstract
This study investigated the effect of carrying unstable load on thoracic kinematics while walking on a curved path. Three-dimensional spinal kinematics were defined as the rotations between thoracic and the Virtual laboratory coordinate system (Tho/ Virtual lab) which consisted of lateral bending (LB), flexion/extension (FE) and axial rotation (AR) in the frontal plane, sagittal plane and transverse plane, respectively. Eight healthy young adults (4 males and 4 females) performed loads carrying and walking on one meter radius curved path. Spinal kinematics was determined at the left leg heel strike and just before the right toe off during the curved path walking. As a result, a significant main effect of load intensity was found only on FE of (Tho/Virtual lab) at both left leg heel strike and right leg toe off. The study concluded that an increase in the load intensity of unstable load from 10 of body weight likely to generate more thorax extension. © 2021 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved.
Keywords
Kinematics, Load intensity, Heel strikes, Tranverse plane, Sagittal plane, Frontal plane
Divisions
biomedengine
Funders
None
Publication Title
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume
2071
Issue
1
Event Title
2021 International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, ICoBE 2021
Event Location
Virtual, Online
Event Dates
14 - 15 September 2021
Event Type
conference