Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 8 , Pages 968-975 , October 2008

Age and height effects on the center of mass and center of pressure inclination angles during obstacle-crossing

  • Shier-Chieg Huang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Tung-Wu Lu

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Hao-Ling Chen

      Affiliations

    • School of Occupational Therapy, National Taiwan University, Room 405, No. 17, Syujhou Road, Taipei City 100,Taiwan, ROC
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886 2 33228162.
    • ,
  • Ting-Ming Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Li-Shan Chou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Human Physiology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1240, USA

Received 30 June 2007 ,Revised 3 December 2007 ,Accepted 12 December 2007.

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PII: S1350-4533(07)00195-6

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.12.005

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 8 , Pages 968-975 , October 2008

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