Brief communication: Dynamic plantar pressure distribution during locomotion in Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata)

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 149-156

  Hirasaki, Eishi ^a   Higurashi, Yasuo ^a   Kumakura, Hiroo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bipedal walking; Foot function; Kinetics; Quadrupedal walking

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FOREFOOT; GAIT; HALLUX; HEEL; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRESSURE; STANDING; WALKING SPEED;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOOT; GAIT; HALLUX; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOCOMOTION; MACACA; MALE; PRESSURE; TIBIAL NERVE; WALKING;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA;

EID: 77950822383     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21240     Document Type: Article

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