Adaptive control for backward quadrupedal walking: VI. Metatarsophalangeal joint dynamics and motor patterns of digit muscles

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 678-694

  Trank, Tamara V ^b   Smith, Judith L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GAIT; LOCOMOTION; METATARSOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORQUE; WALKING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; KINETICS; METATARSOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TOES; WALKING;

EID: 0029914829     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.75.2.678     Document Type: Article

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