Multi-segment trunk kinematics during locomotion and elementary exercises

• Published in: Clinical biomechanics (Bristol) Vol. 26; no. 6; pp. 562 - 571
• Main Authors: Leardini, Alberto, Biagi, Fabio, Merlo, Andrea, Belvedere, Claudio, Benedetti, Maria Grazia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2011
• Subjects: Adult; Anthropometry; Biomechanical Phenomena; Biomechanics; Case-Control Studies; Elementary motion; Exercise; Female; Gait; Gait analysis; Humans; Inter-subject variability; Intra-subject repeatability; Locomotion; Lumbar Vertebrae - pathology; Male; Models, Anatomic; Movement; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Posture; Rotation; Shoulder - physiology; Thorax - pathology; Trunk kinematics; Trunk kinematics; Elementary motion; Intra-subject repeatability; Inter-subject variability; Gait analysis
• ISSN: 0268-0033; 1879-1271; 1879-1271
• DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2011.01.015

Motion of human trunk segments in healthy subjects during activities of daily living has been described either with oversimplified models or with cumbersome techniques of isolated anatomical complex. This study describes multi-segmental trunk motion based on a new technique which is a compromise bet...