ArticleJournal of electromyography and kinesiology : official journal of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology2023
Muscle activation and rating of perceived exertion of typically developing children during DRY and aquatic treadmill walking.
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- Aquatic Treadmill Walking Lowers Pelvic Motion Irregularity in Typically Developing and Children With Cerebral Palsy.American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Trial
- An Aquatic Treadmill Alters Lower Limb Walking Dynamics in Typically Developing Children and Children with Cerebral Palsy.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Trial
- Overground, conventional treadmill, and aquatic treadmill walking joint kinematics differ in typically developing children and adolescents.Journal of biomechanics · 2025Article
- Differences in lower limb co-contraction calculations vary clinical interpretation of aquatic treadmill walking in typically developing and children with cerebral palsy.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- The Rating of Perceived Exertion-Pediatric (RPE-P) Scale: Preliminary Validation.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Aquatic treadmill gait training is a poorly understood rehabilitation method that alters bodyweight support, increases lower limb resistance, and assists with postural stability. This training could be an attractive tool for clinical populations with balance control issues or limited weight-bearing prescriptions for the lower limb. As a first step, the purpose of this study was to quantify differences in mean muscle activity of the tibialis anterior, rectus femoris, medial gastrocnemius, and semitendinosus, and perceived exertion (RPE) in typically developing children (7:8 M:F, age = 11.3 ± 4.1 years, 1.46 ± 0.18 m, and 44.2 ± 16.8 kg) during dry and aquatic treadmill walking at 75 %, 100 %, and 125 % self-selected speed. We hypothesized that the greatest mean muscle activity, normalized to percent maximum voluntary contraction and averaged across all strides, would be observed during 125 % dry treadmill walking and that aquatic treadmill walking would produce lower RPE. Overall, aquatic treadmill walking reduced mean medial gastrocnemius activity by 50.2 % (p
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