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Human locomotion represents the final result of a very complex coordination of muscular actions producing work around the joints. Particularly when such coordination plays a basic role in order to reduce the amount of energy wasted during movement, the objective evaluation of muscular work behaviour provides a useful contribution to plan training procedures or physiokinetic treatments devoted to improve the efficiency of a given performance in sport and in rehabilitation therapy. The aim of this paper is to propose an automatic method which allows the computation of a suitable couple of indexes for the estimation of locomotor efficiency.
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Ferrigno, G., Santambrogio, G.C., Jaworek, K. (1987). An Automatic Method to Evaluate Goodness of Muscular Work During Human Locomotion. In: Bergmann, G., Kölbel, R., Rohlmann, A. (eds) Biomechanics: Basic and Applied Research. Developments in Biomechanics, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3355-2_15
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