Crouched postures reduce the capacity of muscles to extend the hip and knee during the single-limb stance phase of gait

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 960-967

  Hicks, Jennifer L ^a   Schwartz, Michael H ^b,c   Arnold, Allison S ^a   Delp, Scott L ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Center for Gait and Motion Analysis   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; Crouch gait; Dynamics; Muscle; Tibial torsion

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); KINEMATICS;

CEREBRAL PALSY; CROUCHED POSTURES; JOINT FLEXIONS; TIBIAL TORSION;

MUSCLE;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CEREBRAL PALSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; GAIT; GRAVITY; HAMSTRING; HIP; HUMAN; KNEE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING;

BIOMECHANICS; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; GAIT; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE JOINT; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; WALKING;

EID: 40449096802     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2008.01.002     Document Type: Article

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