Modeling muscle activity to study the effects of footwear on the impact forces and vibrations of the human body during running

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 186-193

  Zadpoor, Amir Abbas ^a   Nikooyan, Ali Asadi ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ground reaction force; Modeling; Muscle tuning; Running; Vibrations

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; GROUND REACTION FORCE; GROUND REACTION FORCES; HUMAN BODIES; IMPACT FORCE; IMPROVED MODELS; MASS-SPRING-DAMPER MODELS; MODELING; MUSCLE ACTIVITIES; NON-LINEAR CONTROLLERS; SOFT TISSUE;

CONTROLLERS; HARDNESS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MUSCLE; TUNING;

EXPERIMENTS;

ACCELERATION; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HUMAN; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNNING; SHOE; WHOLE BODY VIBRATION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; LEG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RUNNING; SHOES; VIBRATION;

EID: 72249102822     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.09.028     Document Type: Article

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