Ability of the planar spring-mass model to predict mechanical parameters in running humans

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 248, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 686-695

  Bullimore, Sharon R ^a   Burn, Jeremy F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gait; Ground reaction force; Locomotion; Mechanical work; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BIOT THEORY; GRAVITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LOCOMOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MASS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNNING; SPRING;

BIOMECHANICS; GAIT; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; HYPOGRAVITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RUNNING;

EID: 34548786773     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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