Can muscles tune foot stiffness to enhance efficiency of human locomotion?

肌肉可以调节足部硬度以提高人体运动效率吗？

• 批准号: DP160101117
• 负责人: Prof Glen Lichtwark
• 金额: $ 25.55万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP160101117
• 关键词: muscles; tune; foot; stiffness; enhance

This project aims to understand the key role that muscles might play in supporting the arch of the foot and determine if this improves the efficiency of human walking and running. The human foot is known to act like a spring to store and return energy during walking and running. The project hypothesises that this function is enhanced by muscular contributions within the foot that act to tune the stiffness of the foot and maximise efficiency of force production. Exploration of how foot stiffness is controlled during human movement is expected to improve our understanding of the evolution of human walking and running and contribute to improving the design of modern footwear.

该项目旨在了解肌肉在支撑足弓方面可能发挥的关键作用，并确定这是否能提高人类行走和跑步的效率。众所周知，人类的脚就像弹簧一样，在行走和跑步过程中储存和返回能量。该项目假设，这种功能是通过足部肌肉的贡献来增强的，这些肌肉的作用是调节足部的刚度并最大限度地提高力量产生的效率。探索在人类运动过程中如何控制足部刚度有望提高我们对人类行走和跑步进化的理解，并有助于改进现代鞋类的设计。