Knee elasticity influenced by joint angle and perturbation intensity

IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 111-115

  Tai, C ^a   Robinson, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Knee elasticity; Knee joint; Linear model; Perturbation; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STIFFNESS;

KNEE ELASTICITY; STATIC JOINT ANGLE;

HUMAN REHABILITATION ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT; KNEE FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033105789     PISSN: 10636528     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/86.750561     Document Type: Article

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