Gait kinematics of load carriage in healthy college students

Abstract

Daily use of backpacks have raised some concerns and it has been an issue of research on children and teenagers. This paper shows results of the gait kinematics of load carriage in healthy college students. The analysis was done with videography on the sagittal plane. Three loads were tested (4.1 kg, 6.8 kg and 10.5 kg). It was observed that the angles of ankle and knee do not change, whereas the initial hip angle and the maximum flexion angle showed an increase. Thus all of the observed differences were at the hip level.