Initial Starting Posture and Total Body Movement-Reaction Time for Lateral Movement
Description:
Eighteen subjects each performed fifty-five trials which consisted of assuming an initial stance and then in response to a visual stimulus running to either the left or right. For each trial both the foot width spacing and orientation of the feet were varied. Direct and indirect measurements were taken of selected temporal and kinematic parameters. The conclusions were that no interactions or differences exist among foot width spacing, foot orientation, and direction of movement; the jab step s…
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Date:
August 1983
Creator:
Darnall, Sylvia Pacheco