Changes in the lower leg moment of inertia due to child's growth

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 723-728

  Lebiedowska, Maria K ^a,b   Polisiakiewicz, Andrzej ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Geometrical similarity; Human growth; Lower leg; Moment of inertia

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; PEDIATRICS;

INERTIA;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY DENSITY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MOVEMENT; LOWER LEG; MALE; MODEL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ANATOMY, REGIONAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031194446     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(97)00018-3     Document Type: Article

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