Muscle coordination of maximum-speed pedaling

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 595-602

  Raasch, Christine C ^a,b   Zajac, Felix E ^a,b,c   Ma, Baoming ^d   Levine, William S ^d  

^a VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Biarticular muscle; Biomechanics; Computer model; Coordination; Locomotion; Lower limb

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

MAXIMUM SPEED PEDALING; MUSCLE COORDINATION;

MUSCLE;

ALGORITHM; ANKLE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COORDINATION; CYCLING; ENERGY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HAMSTRING; HIP; KNEE; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

ANKLE; BICYCLING; BIOMECHANICS; HIP; HUMANS; KNEE; LEG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLES;

EID: 0031172273     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(96)00188-1     Document Type: Article

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