TY - GEN
T1 - Effects of anti-fatigue flooring on gait parameters
AU - Soangra, Rahul
AU - Jones, Baron
AU - Lockhart, Thurmon E.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Falls among industrial workers are the leading cause of work related injuries. Nowadays, many industries are opting for anti-fatigue cushioned flooring to reduce fall-related socio-economic cost. The goal of this study is to test SATECH's anti-fatigue flooring for stable gait. A pilot test with five healthy subjects (25-35 years old) has been conducted with six motion capture cameras and two force platforms embedded in a walkway to obtain kinematics and kinetics of whole body gait on two different floors. In conditions where the same floor material was used on the whole walkway, the anti-fatigue floor had smaller values of step length (p<0.01) associated with walking and lower values of required coefficient of friction (RCOF) (p<0.05). Toe clearance, heel contact velocity, whole body center of mass (COM) velocity, single foot stance, and double foot stance did not show significant differences between conditions. The results of this study suggest that subjects were to follow a more stable gait on the SATECH anti-fatigue flooring.
AB - Falls among industrial workers are the leading cause of work related injuries. Nowadays, many industries are opting for anti-fatigue cushioned flooring to reduce fall-related socio-economic cost. The goal of this study is to test SATECH's anti-fatigue flooring for stable gait. A pilot test with five healthy subjects (25-35 years old) has been conducted with six motion capture cameras and two force platforms embedded in a walkway to obtain kinematics and kinetics of whole body gait on two different floors. In conditions where the same floor material was used on the whole walkway, the anti-fatigue floor had smaller values of step length (p<0.01) associated with walking and lower values of required coefficient of friction (RCOF) (p<0.05). Toe clearance, heel contact velocity, whole body center of mass (COM) velocity, single foot stance, and double foot stance did not show significant differences between conditions. The results of this study suggest that subjects were to follow a more stable gait on the SATECH anti-fatigue flooring.
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U2 - 10.1518/107118110X12829370264042
DO - 10.1518/107118110X12829370264042
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79953141732
SN - 9781617820885
T3 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SP - 2019
EP - 2022
BT - 54th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 2010, HFES 2010
T2 - 54th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 2010, HFES 2010
Y2 - 27 September 2010 through 1 October 2010
ER -