A procedure to refine joint kinematic assessments: Functional Alignment

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 487-500

  Ball, Kevin A ^a   Greiner, Thomas M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Axis of rotation; Crosstalk; Post hoc analysis; Reference frames; Spatial averaging

Indexed keywords

AXIS OF ROTATION; DESCRIPTORS; JOINT AXIS; JOINT KINEMATICS; KINEMATIC JOINTS; POST HOC ANALYSIS; REANALYSIS; REFERENCE FRAME; RESEARCH EFFORTS; ROTATION MATRICES; ROTATIONAL AXIS; SPATIAL AVERAGING; SPATIAL POSITIONS; TIME SEQUENCES;

BIOMECHANICS; CROSSTALK; KINEMATICS;

ALIGNMENT;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; JOINT; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KNEE; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; ROTATION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; JOINTS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REFERENCE VALUES; ROTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860719698     PISSN: 10255842     EISSN: 14768259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2010.545821     Document Type: Article

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