Low back three-dimensional joint forces, kinematics, and kinetics during walking

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 203-216

  Callaghan, Jack P ^a   Patla, Aftab E ^a   McGill, Stuart M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Gait; Joint forces; Kinematics; Low back; Three dimensional; Walking

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; JOINTS (ANATOMY); KINEMATICS; MUSCLE;

JOINT KINETICS;

GAIT ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BACK; BIOMECHANICS; DYNAMICS; FORCE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRUNK; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GAIT; HUMANS; JOINTS; KINETICS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0033104976     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0033(98)00069-2     Document Type: Article

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