How changing the inversion/eversion foot angle affects the nondriving intersegmental knee moments and the relative activation of the vastii muscles in cycling

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 391-398

  Gregersen, Colin S ^a   Hull, M L ^b   Hakansson, Nils A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE;

MUSCULAR IMBALANCES; TENSOR FASCIA LATAE (TFL); VASTUS LATERALIS (VL); VASTUS MEDIALIS OBLIQUE (VMO);

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYCLING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERGOMETER; FASCIA LATA; FOOT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; KNEE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PATELLOFEMORAL PAIN SYNDROME; REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY; SPORT; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BICYCLING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOOT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TORQUE;

EID: 33745472225     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2193543     Document Type: Article

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