Economical and preferred walking speed using body weight support apparatus with a spring-like characteristics

• Hoofdauteurs: Daijiro Abe (Auteur), Shunsuke Sakata (Auteur), Kiyotaka Motoyama (Auteur), Naoki Toyota (Auteur), Hidetsugu Nishizono (Auteur), Masahiro Horiuchi (Auteur)
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• Gepubliceerd in: BMC, 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background A specific walking speed minimizing the U-shaped relationship between energy cost of transport per unit distance (CoT) and speed is called economical speed (ES). To investigate the effects of reduced body weight on the ES, we installed a body weight support (BWS) apparatus with a...