Instrumented staircase for ground reaction measurement

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 526-529

  Riener, R ^a,b   Rabuffetti, M ^a   Frigo, C ^a   Quintern, J ^c   Schmidt, G ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Centre of pressure; Force plate; Ground reactions; Motion analysis; Stair climbing

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; DATA RECORDING; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STAIRS; STRAIN GAGES; TRANSDUCERS;

CENTER OF PRESSURE; FORCE PLATE; GROUND REACTION MEASUREMENT; INSTRUMENTED STAIRCASE; MOTION ANALYSIS; STAIR CLIMBING;

GAIT ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLIMBING; FORCE; FORCE TRANSDUCER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSURE; SENSOR;

EID: 0032771729     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02513341     Document Type: Article

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