Compensatory strategies during normal walking in response to muscle weakness and increased hip joint stiffness

Gait and Posture

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 360-367

  Goldberg, Evan J ^a   Neptune, Richard R ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Forward dynamics simulation; Gait; Muscle work; Musculoskeletal model

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE SIMULATION; FEMALE; GAIT; HIP; HUMAN; JOINT STIFFNESS; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL STIFFNESS; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; WALKING;

EID: 33846916942     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2006.04.009     Document Type: Article

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