Functional analysis of the gibbon foot during terrestrial bipedal walking: Plantar pressure distributions and three-dimensional ground reaction forces

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 659-669

  Vereecke, Evie ^a   D'Août, Kristiaan ^a   Van Elsacker, Linda ^a   De Clercq, Dirk ^b   Aerts, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Bipedalism; Hylobates lar; Kinetics; Primate locomotion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APE; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GAIT; GIBBON; HOMINID; NONHUMAN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WALKING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; FOOT; GAIT; HYLOBATES; PRESSURE;

EID: 19044374033     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20158     Document Type: Article

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