Scaling of dynamics in the earliest stages of walking

Physical Therapy

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1458-1467

  Holt, Kenneth G ^a,b   Saltzman, Elliot ^a,b,c   Ho, Chia Ling ^a   Ulrich, Beverly D ^d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FALLING; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; KINEMATICS; LEG; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; SOFT TISSUE; WALKING;

BIOMECHANICS; GAIT; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; WALKING;

EID: 35949002850     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20060299     Document Type: Article

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