Trunk muscles activation during pole walking vs. walking performed at different speeds and grades
| Autor: | Francesco Lucertini, Ario Federici, Massimiliano Ditroilo, Luca Zoffoli |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male Functional role medicine.medical_specialty human locomotion Biophysics STRIDE Walking Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences EMG abdominal muscles coactivation 0302 clinical medicine Abdominal muscles Humans Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Treadmill Muscle Skeletal Electromyography business.industry Rehabilitation spinal stability Torso 030229 sport sciences Anatomy Stride length Coactivation Longissimus Exercise Test Physical therapy Female Trunk muscle business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Gait & Posture. 46:57-62 |
| ISSN: | 0966-6362 |
| Popis: | Given their functional role and importance, the activity of several trunk muscles was assessed (via surface electromyography-EMG) during Walking (W) and Pole Walking (PW) in 21 healthy adults. EMG data was collected from the external oblique (EO), the erector spinae longissimus (ES), the multifidus (MU), and the rectus abdominis (RA) while performing W and PW on a motorized treadmill at different speeds (60, 80, and 100% of the highest speed at which the participants still walked naturally; PTS60, PTS80 and PTS100, respectively) and grades (0 and 7%; GRADE0 and GRADE7, respectively). Stride length, EMG area under the curve (AUC), muscles activity duration (ACT), and percentage of coactivation (CO-ACT) of ES, MU and RA, were calculated from the averaged stride for each of the tested combinations. Compared to W, PW significantly increased the stride length, EOAUC, RAAUC and the activation time of all the investigated muscles, to different extents depending on treadmill speeds and grades. In addition, MUAUC was higher in PW than in W at GRADE0 only (all speeds, p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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