Upper extremity kinetics during Lofstrand crutch-assisted gait

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-29

  Requejo, Philip S ^a   Wahl, David P ^a   Bontrager, Ernest L ^a   Newsam, Craig J ^a   Gronley, JoAnne K ^a   Mulroy, Sara J ^a   Perry, Jacquelin ^a  

^a RANCHO LOS AMIGOS NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Crutch assisted gait; Crutches; Force measurement; Gait; Kinematics; Kinetics; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

GLENOHUMERAL JOINTS; JOINT MOTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY (SCI); THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) BIOMECHANICAL MODELS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CAMERAS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); KINEMATICS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; STRAIN GAGES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WALKING AIDS;

GAIT ANALYSIS;

AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CAMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; FORCE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; JOINT FUNCTION; KINETICS; LEG; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WALKING AID; WEIGHT BEARING; WRIST;

AGED; BIOMECHANICS; CRUTCHES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TORQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 10444273968     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2004.08.008     Document Type: Article

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