Date: September 29, 2016
Source: Friedrich Schiller
University Jena
Humans and birds adapt their
movement when running on uneven ground. "And even though their adaptation
mechanisms and strategies developed completely independently, they do so in
very similar ways," says Dr Roy Müller from the Friedrich Schiller
University Jena (Germany). Together with colleagues he has published a review
article in the current issue of the Journal of the Royal Society Interface in
which they analyse human and avian locomotion on uneven ground.
An experience anybody who goes
running in the forest has surely had: Running on uneven grounds or
cross-country, you suddenly step on a rock or a root crossing your way or you
come across a small hollow. You step into an empty space or on an obstacle,
either way disrupting your running rhythm. "Yet, even at a rather fast
pace, situations like these usually do not make us lose our balance," says
kinesiologist Dr Roy Müller from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
(Germany). The reason: Bipedal runners -- and humans count among them -- have
various adaptation strategies stabilizing movement in their fast locomotion.
Together with his colleague Dr
Yvonne Blum and the British researcher Dr Aleksandra Birn-Jeffery, Dr Müller
has published a review article in the current issue of the Journal of the Royal
Society Interface in which they analyse human and avian locomotion on uneven
ground.
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