Model-based estimation of knee stiffness

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2604-2612

  Pfeifer, Serge ^a   Vallery, Heike ^b   Hardegger, Michael ^a   Riener, Robert ^a   Perreault, Eric J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyography (EMG); knee joint impedance; knee prosthetics; load sharing; muscle force estimation; muscle short range stiffness; musculoskeletal modeling

Indexed keywords

KNEE JOINT; KNEE PROSTHETIC; LOAD SHARING; MUSCLE FORCE ESTIMATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL MODELING;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MUSCLE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

STIFFNESS;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE; ISOMETRICS; JOINT STIFFNESS; KNEE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TORQUE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TORQUE;

EID: 84865489990     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2207895     Document Type: Article

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