In recent years, there has been a significant expansion in female participation in endurance
(road and trail) running. The often reported sex differences in maximal oxygen uptake (V …

During the last decade, there has been a growing body of literature suggesting that proximal
factors may play a contributory role with respect to knee injuries. A review of the …

The shift to habitual bipedalism 4–6 million years ago in the hominin lineage created a
morphologically and functionally different human pelvis compared to our closest living …

Objective To systematically review literature investigating the relationship between hip
muscle strength and dynamic lower extremity valgus during movement tasks in …

Background Medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS) affects 5%–35% of runners. Research
over the last 40 years investigating a range of interventions has not established any clearly …

Studies on human perception have identified pelvis and torso motion as key discriminators
between male and female gaits. However, while most observers would advocate that men …

Background Females have a two-fold risk of developing knee osteoarthritis (OA) as
compared to their male counterparts and atypical walking gait biomechanics are also …

The increased use of gait analysis has raised the need for a better understanding of how
walking speed and demographic variations influence asymptomatic gait. Previous analyses …

This study aims to propose a novel approach for gender recognition using best feature
subset based on recursive feature elimination (RFE) in normal walking. This study has …

There are well-known biological differences between women and men, especially in
technical-coordinative variations that contribute to sex differences in performance of …