A new technique for determining 3-D joint angles: The tilt/twist method

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 153-165

  Crawford, Neil R ^a   Yamaguchi, Gary T ^b   Dickman, Curtis A ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude vector; Cardan angles; Coupling; Euler angles; Helical angles; Joint coordinate system

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; JOINTS (ANATOMY); VECTORS;

CARDAN ANGLES; EULER ANGLES; HELICAL ANGLES; JOINT COORDINATE SYSTEM; TILT/TWIST METHOD;

BIOMECHANICS;

ARTICLE; JOINT FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE;

BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINE;

EID: 0033104984     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0033(98)00080-1     Document Type: Article

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