Table 3.

Mean angular accelerations of the foot segment (α_foot), shank segment (α_shank) and thigh segment (α_thigh) at peak knee moment, with standard deviations for forward and backward running. ^⁎ indicates that the backward running condition was significantly different from forward running with p<0.05 and ^⁎⁎ with p<0.01.

	αfootatMk(max)(deg./s2)	αshankatMk(max)(deg./s2)	αthighatMk(max)(deg./s2)
Forward	1351±1745	3420±1617	−3048±1607
Backward	−2976±2683⁎⁎	4228±931⁎⁎	−3357±1179
Significance	<0.01	<0.01	0.303