Muscle compensatory mechanisms during able-bodied toe walking

Gait and Posture

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 440-446

  Sasaki, Kotaro ^a   Neptune, Richard R ^a   Burnfield, Judith M ^b   Mulroy, Sara J ^c  

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

^b MADONNA REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c RANCHO LOS AMIGOS NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Equinus gait; Mechanical energetics; Modeling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CENTER OF MASS; DYNAMICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEMALE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT MOBILITY; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIMULATION; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TOE WALKING; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE; WALKING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TOES; WALKING;

EID: 44249118783     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2007.05.012     Document Type: Article

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