A Quantitative Analysis of Pendular Motion of the Lower Leg in Spastic Human Subjects

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1991, Pages 906-918

  Lin, David C ^a   Rymer, William Zev ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PENDULUMS;

GRAVITY-INDUCED LEG OSCILLATIONS; NONLINEAR MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SPASTIC LIMB MOTION;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); SPASTICITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026228554     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.83611     Document Type: Article

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