Abstract
The present work was aimed at analysing the young and elderly people muscular activation in order to provide evidences regarding the different role of the muscular groups in locomotion. The tested hypothesis concerns the different strategy of the counterparts, that is a greater effort in preserving stability and safety in elders versus a greater importance in the propulsion in young. Five young and five elderly subjects were involved in the experiments and were asked to walk with 6 cadences, from 40 to 140 step/min. Muscle activations of twelve muscles were recorded, filtered, timeinterpolated in 200 points over a gait cycle, averaged on the steps and processed by using Factor Analysis. Results showed that young and elderly muscle activations were described by factors behaving in opposite manner between the groups. The authors hypothesized that ageing may involve modifications in the peripheral areas of the Central Nervous System, producing neuromuscular adaptation.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology" |
| Pages | 5370-5373 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
| Event | 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - Vancouver, BC, Canada Duration: Aug 20 2008 → Aug 25 2008 |
Other
| Other | 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 |
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| Country/Territory | Canada |
| City | Vancouver, BC |
| Period | 8/20/08 → 8/25/08 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Engineering
- Health Informatics