Mechanical advantage of the thumb muscles

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 565-570

  Paul Smutz, W ^a   Kongsayreepong, Apichai ^a   Hughes, Richard E ^a   Niebur, Glen ^a   Cooney, William P ^a   An, Kai Nan ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Moment arms; Thumb

Indexed keywords

CADAVERIC EXPERIMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE;

MOMENT ARMS; THUMB MUSCLE;

BIOMECHANICS;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; CARPOMETACARPAL JOINT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYNAMOMETRY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; PHALANX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THUMB;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; THUMB;

EID: 0032100110     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(98)00043-8     Document Type: Article

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