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Postural Organization of Gait Initiation for Biomechanical Analysis Using Force Platform Recordings

Arnaud Simonet^1,2,3, Arnaud Delafontaine^2,3,4, Paul Fourcade^2,3, Eric Yiou^2,3

¹LADAPT Loiret, Centre de Soins de Suite et de Réadaptation, ²CIAMS, Université Paris-Saclay, ³CIAMS, Université d'Orléans, ⁴Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique

This paper describes the material and method developed to investigate the postural organization of gait initiation. The method is based on force platform recordings and on the direct principle of mechanics to compute center of gravity and center of pressure kinematics.