Fibre operating lengths of human lower limb muscles during walking

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1570, 2011, Pages 1530-1539

  Arnold, Edith M ^a   Delp, Scott L ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibre length; Gait; Muscle architecture; Musculoskeletal model; Simulation

Indexed keywords

MOVEMENT; MUSCLE; SIMULATION; WALKING;

EID: 79955435817     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0345     Document Type: Article

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