What is it about?
Runners are given visual feedback from the right and left sides of their heads to analyze changes in head and tibial accelerations, footstrike patterns, stride length and stride rate. This study may have potential in gait rehabilitation.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that shock absorption by the body may have different shock absorbing mechanisms when given visual tasks of varying difficulty and from different directions.
Perspectives
Real-time visual feedback may be used to retrain gait and potentially reduce lower-body injuries related to running
Anamaria Laudet Mangubat
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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This page is a summary of: Biomechanical Outcomes Due to Impact Loading in Runners While Looking Sideways, Journal of Applied Biomechanics, December 2018, Human Kinetics,
DOI: 10.1123/jab.2017-0381.
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