Forces of individual cat ankle extensor muscles during locomotion predicted using static optimization

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1025-1033

  Prilutsky, B I ^a   Herzog, W ^a   Allinger, T L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Force sharing; Gastrocnemius; Plantaris; Redundancy; Soleus

Indexed keywords

FORCE MEASUREMENT; GAIT ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

FORCE TRANSDUCERS;

MUSCLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FORCE TRANSDUCER; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; STANDING; STRESS; TREADMILL; VELOCITY; VIDEORECORDING; WALKING;

ANIMALS; CATS; FORECASTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TARSUS, ANIMAL;

EID: 0031257668     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(97)00068-7     Document Type: Article

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