Force- and moment-generating capacities of muscles in the distal forelimb of the horse

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 101-113

  Brown, Nicholas A T ^a   Pandy, Marcus G ^a   Kawcak, Christopher E ^b   McIlwraith, C Wayne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Joint moment; Moment arm; Muscle force; Musculoskeletal model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CARPAL BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FORELIMB; GAIT; GEOMETRY; HORSE; HUMERUS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; JOINT MOBILITY; KINEMATICS; LIGAMENT; LIMB MOVEMENT; METACARPAL BONE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHALANX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; RADIUS; TENDON; ULNA; WRIST;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORELIMB; HORSES; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; JOINTS; LIGAMENTS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0037780368     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-7580.2003.00206.x     Document Type: Article

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