Standing-up in healthy subjects: Symmetry of weight distribution and lateral displacement of the centre of mass as related to limb dominance

Gait and Posture

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 287-292

  Hesse, Stefan ^a   Schauer, Michael ^a   Jahnke, Matthias T ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Limb dominance; Speed of ascent; Standing up

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 0030271913     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0966-6362(95)01051-3     Document Type: Article

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