Authors:
Giovana Yuko Nakashima
1
;
2
;
Theresa Helissa Nakagawa
3
;
Ana Flávia dos Santos
4
;
Fábio Viadanna Serrão
4
and
Carlos Dias Maciel
2
Affiliations:
1
Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of São Paulo, Brazil
;
2
University of São Paulo, Brazil
;
3
Uninorte Laureate International Universities, Brazil
;
4
Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Partial Directed Coherence, Kinematics, Knee.
Abstract:
The study of the interactions among elements of a system is decisive to understanding their behavior patterns.
The knowledge of the details of human motion allows physiotherapists to propose prevention and rehabilitation
programs, as well as to identify movements that could lead to an injury. This work examines Partial Directed
Coherence measures to determine the direction of the influences, throughout the stance phase only, among
kinematic joints data acquired during the running activity. Five channels of the ankle, knee, hip, pelvis and
trunk kinematic data were processed in each of the three anatomical planes, sagittal, frontal and transverse.
These analysis suggested that the ankle joint receives a intense proximal to distal influence, whereas the knee,
hip, pelvis and trunk joints presents a predominance of distal to proximal interaction.