Variations In Gait Patterns Of Runners: Relationship To Anthropometric Measurements

S. Adelsberg; C. Tauber; J. Au; J. Pugh

doi:10.1117/12.966053

12 July 1983 Variations In Gait Patterns Of Runners: Relationship To Anthropometric Measurements

S. Adelsberg, C. Tauber, J. Au, J. Pugh

Proceedings Volume 0361, Biostereometrics '82; (1983) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.966053
Event: 26th Annual Technical Symposium, 1982, San Diego, United States

Abstract

High-speed computerized motion analysis was used to assess the running parameters of a group of runners. Anthropometric measurements were taken on the group of runners in an effort to provide possible correlations between running style, speed, and anthropometry. The most consistent correlation was between speed and stride length. Femur length and stride length was only highly correlated for the runners at the fastest speeds. The faster runners also had a gait pattern characterized by significantly lower ground contact time than that of the slower runners. Of prime importance in running is behavior of the body during float phase, and mediated by anthropometry and the biomechanical characteristics of the stance phase.

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S. Adelsberg, C. Tauber, J. Au, and J. Pugh "Variations In Gait Patterns Of Runners: Relationship To Anthropometric Measurements", Proc. SPIE 0361, Biostereometrics '82, (12 July 1983); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.966053

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