Changes in infant segment inertias during the first three months of independent walking

Dynamic Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Chester, Victoria L ^a   Jensen, Robert K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY POSTURE; BODY REGIONS; CHILD GROWTH; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; INFANT; LINEAR SYSTEM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NECK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRUNK; WALKING;

EID: 27744498466     PISSN: 14765918     EISSN: 14765918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-5918-4-9     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Thelen E: Motor development: A new synthesis. American Psychologist 1995, 50:79-95.
2. Thelen E, Ulrich BD: Hidden Skills: A dynamic systems analysis of treadmill stepping during the first year. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 1991, 56:6-46.
3. Thelen E, Ulrich BD, Jensen JL: The developmental origin of locomotion. In The Development of Posture and Gait Across the Lifespan Edited by: Woollacott M, Shumway-Cook A. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press; 1989.
4. Schneider K, Zernicke RF, Ulrich BD, Jensen JL, Thelen E: Understanding movement control in infants through the analysis of limb intersegmental dynamics. Journal of Motor Behaviour 1990, 22:493-520.
5. Thelen E, Fisher DM, Ridley-Johnson R: The relationship between physical growth and a newborn reflex. Infant Behaviour and Development 1984, 7:479-93.
6. Cameron N, Tanner JM, Whitehouse RH: A longitudinal analysis of the growth of limb segments in adolescence. Annals of Human Biology 1982, 9:211-220.
7. Tanner JM: Growth at Adolescence 2nd edition. Blackwell, Oxford; 1962.
8. Sun H, Jensen RK: Body segment growth during infancy. Journal of Biomechanics 1994, 27:265-275.
9. Clauser CE, McConville JT, Young JW: Weight, Volume, and Centre of Mass of Segments of the Human Body. In OH: AMRL-Technical Report 60-70 Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; 1969:1-253.
10. Jensen RK: Estimation of the biomechanical properties of three body types using a photogrammetric method. Journal of Biomechanics 1978, 11:349-358.
11. Jensen RK, Nassas G: Growth of segment principal moments of inertia between four and twenty years. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 1988, 20:594-604.