Tradeoff between stability and maneuverability during whole-body movements

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Huang, Helen J ^a   Ahmed, Alaa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960300294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021815     Document Type: Article

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