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Gait & Posture 35 (2012) 29–35 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Gait & Posture jo u rn al h om ep age: ww w.els evier.c o m/lo c ate/g aitp os t Adjustments after an ankle dorsiflexion perturbation during human running M. Scohier, D. De Jaeger, B. Schepens * ´ ´ Laboratoire de Physiologie et de Biomecanique de la Locomotion, Institute of NeuroScience, Universite catholique de Louvain, Place Pierre de Coubertin 1, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: In this study we investigated the effect of a mechanical perturbation of unexpected timing during human Received 6 September 2010 running. With the use of a powered exoskeleton, we evoked a dorsiflexion of the right ankle during its Received in revised form 25 March 2011 swing phase while subjects ran on a treadmill. The perturbation resulted in an increase of the right ankle Accepted 28 July 2011 dorsiflexion of at least 58. The first two as well as the next five steps after the perturbation were analyzed to observe the possible immediate and late biomechanical adjustments. In all cases subjects continued to Keywords: run after the perturbation. The immediate adjustments were the greatest and the most frequent when Human running the delay between the right ankle