Codman's paradox of the arm rotations is not a paradox: Mathematical validation

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 257-260

  Politti, Julio C ^a   Goroso, Gustavo ^a   Valentinuzzi, Max E ^a   Bravo, Orlando ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Arm biomechanics; Arm muscle electromyography; Homogeneous coordinates; Matrices; Polar coordinates

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; VECTORS;

ARM ROTATIONS; CODMAN PARADOX; HOMOGENEOUS COORDINATES; POLAR COORDINATES;

BIOMECHANICS;

ARM MOVEMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SHOULDER GIRDLE;

EID: 0032103403     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(98)00020-4     Document Type: Article

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