Constant and variable stiffness and damping of the leg joints in human hopping

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 507-514

  Rapoport, Svetlana ^c   Mizrahi, Joseph ^c   Kimmel, Eitan ^a   Verbitsky, Oleg ^a   Isakov, Eli ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b LOEWENSTEIN REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; DAMPING; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MUSCLE; STIFFNESS; TENDONS;

DIAGNOSTIC ALGORITHMS;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT STIFFNESS; JUMPING; LEG; LEG PROSTHESIS; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; ROBOTICS; VELOCITY;

ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEMALE; GAIT; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LEG; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TENDONS; TORQUE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0041510457     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1590358     Document Type: Article

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