Use of self-selected postures to regulate multi-joint stiffness during unconstrained tasks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Trumbower, Randy D ^a   Krutky, Matthew A ^a,b   Yang, Bing Shiang ^c   Perreault, Eric J ^a,b,d  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARM POSTURE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT STIFFNESS; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; POSITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ARM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; JOINT; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; ROTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; JOINTS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR SKILLS; POSTURE; ROBOTICS; ROTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549095781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005411     Document Type: Article

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