Biomechanical model for the determination of the forces acting on the finger pulley system

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 915-923

  Roloff, Isabelle ^a   Schöffl, Volker Rainer ^b   Vigouroux, Laurent ^c   Quaine, Franck ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Biomechanical model; Biomechanics; Flexor tendon; Pulley; Rock climbing

Indexed keywords

JOINTS (ANATOMY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIFFNESS;

BIOMECHANICAL MODEL; FLEXOR TENDOM; PULLEY; ROCK CLIMBING;

BIOMECHANICS;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE; FLEXOR TENDON; FORCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TENDON;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FINGER JOINT; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENDONS;

EID: 32644449945     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2005.01.028     Document Type: Article

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