Identification of intrinsic and reflex contributions to human ankle stiffness dynamics

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 493-504

  Kearney, Robert E ^a,b   Stein, Richard B ^a,c   Parameswaran, Luckshman ^b,d  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d MDS SCIEX   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological motor systems; biomechanics; identification; nervous system; stretch reflexes

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MOTOR SYSTEM; STRETCH REFLEXES;

BIOMECHANICS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; NEUROLOGY; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ANKLE; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR SYSTEM; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGIDITY; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TORQUE;

ANKLE JOINT; ELASTICITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX, STRETCH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 0031172113     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.581944     Document Type: Article

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