Wheelchair propulsion efficiency: Movement pattern adaptations to speed changes

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1994, Pages 1373-1381

  Vanlandewijck, Yves C ^a   Spaepen, Arthur J ^a   Lysens, Roeland J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Energy expenditure; Handrim wheelchair propulsion; Mechanical work; Propulsion technique

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BASKETBALL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINESIOLOGY; MALE; MECHANICS; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; VELOCITY; WHEELCHAIR;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLES; PARAPLEGIA; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 0028034875     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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