The implications of force feedback for the λ model

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 629, Issue , 2009, Pages 663-679

  Nichols, Richard ^a   Ross, Kyla T ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; EQUILIBRIUM POINT HYPOTHESIS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FORCE FEEDBACK; HYPOTHESIS; LEG MUSCLE; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; HUMAN; INNERVATION; LIMB; MECHANORECEPTOR; MYOTATIC REFLEX; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

BIOMECHANICS; EXTREMITIES; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MECHANORECEPTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURAL BALANCE; REFLEX, STRETCH;

EID: 61949273709     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-77064-2_36     Document Type: Article

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