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Use treadmills with caution: Walking Energy Expenditure and Metabolic Cost are elevated compared to overground across multiple speeds in healthy young adults

2026-04-16

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<h4>Background</h4> Treadmill walking is often employed for tightly controlled gait and energetics research, but growing evidence suggests that treadmill-based metabolic and biomechanical measurements may not directly reflect the ecologically valid mode of overground walking. While many previous studies focused on older adults, much less is known about how treadmill walking influences gait energetics and spatiote...

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Literature Corpus work: a10d9652-0712-5e90-95b2-d13568713d82
DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.14.718406

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