How muscle architecture and moment arms affect wrist flexion-extension moments

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 705-712

  Gonzalez, Roger V ^a   Buchanan, Thomas S ^b   Delp, Scott L ^c  

^a Le Tourneau University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Moment arms; Muscle architecture; Wrist

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EXTENSION MOMENT; FLEXION MOMENT; MOMENT ARMS;

BIOMECHANICS;

ARM MOVEMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WRIST;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; WRIST;

EID: 0031194897     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(97)00015-8     Document Type: Article

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