Dynamic arm swinging in human walking
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Dynamic arm swinging in human walking.
Humans tend to swing their arms when they walk, a curious behaviour since the arms play no obvious role in bipedal gait. It might be costly to use muscles to swing the arms, and it is unclear whether potential benefits elsewhere in the body would justify such costs. To examine these costs and benefits, we developed a passive dynamic walking model with free-swinging arms. Even with no torques dr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0664