The effects of the antagonist muscle force on intersegmental loading during isokinetic efforts of the knee extensors

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-25

  Kellis, Eleftherios ^a   Baltzopoulos, Vasilios ^b  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coactivation; Joint forces; Knee stability

Indexed keywords

JOINTS (ANATOMY); LOAD TESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE; STATISTICAL METHODS; TENDONS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); INTERSEGMENTAL LOADING;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; JOINT STABILITY; KNEE INSTABILITY; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATELLA TENDON; PHYSICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0032893208     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(98)00131-6     Document Type: Article

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