Sex-Specific Hip Movement Is Correlated With Pelvis and Upper Body Rotation During Running.

ABSTRACT: There is a sex bias for common overuse running injuries that are associated with sex-specific hip kinematics. Gait retraining programs aimed at altering hip kinematics may be more efficient if they incorporated an understanding of how hip kinematics are correlated with the movement of the remaining body segments. We applied a principal component analysis to structure the whole-body running kinematics of 23 runners (12 ♀) into k = 12 principal movements (PM_k), describing correlated patterns of upper and lower body movements. We compared the time-dependent movement amplitudes with respect to each PM_k between males and females using a waveform analysis and interpreted our findings according to stick figure animations. The movement amplitudes of two PMs (PM₆ an

SUBMITTER: Mohr M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8255915 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature