Motion of the foot and ankle during the stance phase in rats

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 630-635

  Varejão, Artur S P ^a   Cabrita, António M ^b   Meek, Marcel F ^c   Bulas Cruz, José ^a   Gabriel, Ronaldo C ^a   Filipe, Vitor M ^a   Melo Pinto, Pedro ^a   Winter, David A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ankle angle; Foot and ankle function; Peripheral nerve; Rat gait kinematics; Stance phase

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FOOT; GAIT; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STANDING; WALKING;

ANIMALS; ANKLE; BIOMECHANICS; FOOT; GAIT; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0036842213     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10242     Document Type: Article

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