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Background: Stability is one of the key demands in human locomotion including running. Various kinematical analytical approaches are adopted to investigate the running strategies; nevertheless, the impacts of running speeds on the variability of angles in individual lower limbs joints is still unclear. Objective: This study was aimed to investigate the impact of various running speeds on linear and non-linear variability of the hip, knee and ankle joints movement. Methods: Twenty-three collegiate athletes (13 females, 10 males, age 22.04 ± 3.43 years, body mass 62.14 ± 9.26 kg, height 168.29 ± 7.06 cm) ran at preferred running speed, 20% lower, and 20% higher than preferred running speed on a treadmill and their lower limbs joints kinematics were recorded using myoMOTION system at the sampling frequency of 200 Hz. The repeated measure analysis of variance test was adopted to investigate the linear (mean and standard deviation) and non-linear (Lyapunov exponent) variability of the hip, knee and ankle angle in sagittal, frontal and transverse planes throughout the running cycle. Results: No significant difference was observed between the lower limbs joint angles variability in linear analysis, while the Lyapunov exponent of the hip (p = .008, ηp 2 = .338), knee (p = .002, ηp 2 = .249) joints in the sagittal plane significantly increased as running speed increased. Conclusions: Findings of this study revealed that the hip and knee joints respond with more freedom of movement in the sagittal plane while walking speed increases, although nonlinear approaches were the only ones capable of detecting it. Given that speed changes might reduce body stability, it appears that these joints are attempting to maintain body stability by regulating internal body system perturbations by increasing their variability.: Lyapunov exponent, kinematic variability, non-linear, running biomechanics
Author(s): Aghaie P, Sarvestan J, Alaei F, Yazdanbakhsh F, Abbasi A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Acta Gymnica
Year: 2021
Volume: 51
Online publication date: 24/11/2021
Acceptance date: 14/11/2021
Date deposited: 17/10/2022
ISSN (print): 2336-4912
ISSN (electronic): 2336-4920
Publisher: Palacký University in Olomouc
URL: https://doi.org/10.5507/ag.2021.023
DOI: 10.5507/ag.2021.023
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