The effect of heel-pad thickness and loading protocol on measured heel-pad stiffness and a standardized protocol for inter-subject comparability

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 204-212

  Spears, Iain R ^a   Miller Young, Janice E ^b  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Force displacement; Soft tissue modeling; Stress strain

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORCE CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; STRESS ANALYSIS; TISSUE; VISCOELASTICITY;

FORCE-DISPLACEMENT; HEEL-PAD STIFFNESS; SOFT TISSUE MODELING; STRESS-STRAIN;

STIFFNESS;

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CALCANEUS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEEL; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISCOELASTICITY;

BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEEL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 29344443254     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2005.09.017     Document Type: Article

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