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Title: | Analyzing pace frequencies in bipedal primates and primate "predecessors" reveals mechanisms that regulate foot inversion and thus ensure foot stability at touchdown | Authors: | VAN ZWIETEN, Koos Jaap NARAIN, Faridi De Munter, Stephanie Kosten, Lauren Lamur, Kenneth S. SCHMIDT, Klaus LIPPENS, Peter ZOUBOVA, Irina Piskun, Oleg E. Varzin, Sergey A. |
Issue Date: | 2015 | Source: | Xth Annual All-Russian Research and Practical Conference with International Participation "Health - The Base of Human Potential: Problems and Ways to Solve Them": Proceedings of the conference, p. 820-822 | Series/Report no.: | 10 | Abstract: | In walking bipedally, various arboreal New World primate species use a “forefoot first” strategy, after which heel contact occurs. A similar walking scenario is seen in arboreal New World marsupials like the opossum, a quadrupedal primate “predecessor”. In opossum walking the swing phase ends with the foot in the inverted position to the next touchdown with the forefoot. We therefore hypothesized that those quadrupedal marsupials which are mainly or exclusively terrestrial like e.g., wombats, will also display a “forefoot first” strategy at touchdown. Our observations reveal that marsupials such as wombats, though being exclusively quadrupedal and non-arboreal, show basically the same strategies of foot eversion to ensure safe touchdown as bipedally walking arboreal New World primate species, with morphologically guided adjustments. Analyzing this hopefully helps to understand gait training problems in patients too, with emphasis on foot inversion and eversion. | Notes: | Continuation of earlier research as presented in various PhD-Theses at the University of Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium, in cooperation with the Anton de Kom University of Suriname, Paramaribo, Suriname, see also University of Hasselt project : "Foot inversion and eversion movements in stance and swing - some comparative-anatomical and functional morphological aspects (R-3500)", http://www.uhasselt.be/UH/research/Research-Hasselt-University/Research-groups-per-discipline-group/en-projecten_DOC/en-project_details.html?pid=5986&t=en | Keywords: | gait analysis; bipedal primates; primate predecessors; small marsupials; wombats; pace frequencies; foot inversion; lower leg rotation; evertor muscles; minimally impaired multiple sclerosis; shuffling gait; patients gait training | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/20087 | Link to publication/dataset: | www.humanpotential.ru http://z70391.infobox.ru/varzin/moodle/file.php/1/2015/Tom10_chast_2.pdf |
DOI: | 10.13140/RG.2.1.3688.8400 | Rights: | © Российский государственный педагогический университет имени А.И. Герцена, 2015; © Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет, 2015; © Санкт-Петербургский политехнический университет Петра Великого, 2015; © Варзин С.А., Диодорова Т. И., логотип, 2012; ISSN 2076-4618 | Category: | C1 | Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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