Muscle redundancy does not imply robustness to muscle dysfunction

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1264-1270

  Kutch, Jason J ^a   Valero Cuevas, Francisco J ^a,b  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational models; Limb biomechanics; Motor control; Muscle redundancy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; INDEX FINGER; LIMB BIOMECHANICS; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR SYSTEMS; MULTI-JOINT; STATIC FORCES;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REDUNDANCY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

MUSCLE;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDEX FINGER; LEG; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE REDUNDANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINGERS; HUMANS; LEG; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SOFTWARE; TENDONS;

EID: 79954610139     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2011.02.014     Document Type: Article

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