Strategies used to stabilize the elbow joint challenged by inverted pendulum loading

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 737-743

  Stokes, Ian A F ^a   Gardner Morse, Mack G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Elbow; Joint instability; Muscle force; Upper extremity

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; STIFFNESS; SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

JOINT INSTABILITY;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

ARM; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BIOMECHANICS; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORQUE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; ELBOW JOINT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; JOINT INSTABILITY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SUPINATION; TORQUE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0034026536     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(00)00016-6     Document Type: Article

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