An Emerging Postural Response: Is Control of the Hip Possible in the Newly Walking Child?

Journal of Motor Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 147-159

  Roncesvalles, Maria Nida C ^a   Woollacott, Marjorie H ^b   Brown, Nicholas ^c   Jensen, Jody L ^c  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Children's motor development; Posture

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; KINEMATICS; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TORQUE; WALKING;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HIP; HUMANS; INFANT; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; WALKING;

EID: 2342565091     PISSN: 00222895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JMBR.36.2.147-159     Document Type: Article

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