Walking - Physiology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Legacy and current understanding of the often-misunderstood Foix-Alajouanine syndrome. Historical vignette.

30 Oct 2009 Foix-Alajouanine syndrome has become a well-known entity since its initial report in 1926. The traditional understanding of this clinical syndrome is as a progressive spinal cord venous thrombosis related to a spinal vascular lesion, resulting in ... Read more...

The lasting effects of spike insoles on postural control in the elderly.

29 Sep 2009 The purpose of the present study was to explore the lasting effects of a tactile sensitivity enhancement induced by spike insoles on the control of stance in the elderly. Healthy elderly subjects (n = 19, mean age = 68.8) and young adults (n = 17, ... Read more...

The built environment and physical activity levels: the Harvard Alumni Health Study.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Physical activity is associated with better health, but many individuals are insufficiently active. Modifying the built environment may be an approach capable of influencing population-wide levels of physical activity, but few data exist ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Walking - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Legacy and current understanding of the often-misunderstood Foix-Alajouanine syndrome. Historical vignette. 30 Oct 2009
• The lasting effects of spike insoles on postural control in the elderly. 29 Sep 2009
• Reconciling the construct of walking in physical activity and transportation research. 29 Sep 2009
• The built environment and physical activity levels: the Harvard Alumni Health Study. 29 Sep 2009
• A walk (or cycle) to the park: active transit to neighborhood amenities, the CARDIA study. 29 Sep 2009
• Cardiometabolic risk in younger and older adults across an index of ambulatory activity. 29 Sep 2009
• Effects of sex and mode of carrying schoolbags on ground reaction forces and temporal characteristics of gait. 30 Aug 2009
• Improved walking ability and reduced therapeutic stress with an electromechanical gait device. 30 Aug 2009
• Independent evolution of knuckle-walking in African apes shows that humans did not evolve from a knuckle-walking ancestor. 8 Aug 2009
• Differences in activities of the lower extremity muscles with and without heel contact during stair ascent by young women wearing high-heeled shoes. 5 Aug 2009
• Age affects the attentional demands of stair ambulation: evidence from a dual-task approach. 4 Aug 2009
• Walking: your steps to health. 30 Jul 2009
• Physiology of walking in patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 30 Jul 2009
• Redirection of center-of-mass velocity during the step-to-step transition of human walking. 30 Jul 2009
• Lower extremity disorders in children and adolescents. 30 Jul 2009
• Assessment of the effects of diabetes on midfoot joint pressures using a robotic gait simulator. 30 Jul 2009
• A dynamic model of the windlass mechanism of the foot: evidence for early stance phase preloading of the plantar aponeurosis. 30 Jul 2009
• The effects of transcranial stimulation on paretic lower limb motor excitability during walking. 30 Jul 2009
• Risk-tendency graph (RTG): a new gait-analysis technique for monitoring FES-assisted paraplegic walking stability. 30 Jul 2009
• Differences in static and dynamic measures in evaluation of talonavicular mobility in gait. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Walking'

Definition: An activity in which the body advances at a slow to moderate pace by moving the feet in a coordinated fashion. This includes recreational walking, walking for fitness, and competitive race-walking.

Descriptor UI: D016138

Alternative terms: Walking; Ambulation;

Related Mesh Headings: Gait;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; injuries; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics; physiology;

Tree Number: G11.427.590.530.568.900; G11.427.590.530.698.940; I03.450.642.845.940;

History Note: 91

Technical Notes: human & animal; /inj: coordinate IM with specific injury (IM); differentiate from GAIT, the way one walks