Estimation of Quasi-Stiffness of the Human Knee in the Stance Phase of Walking

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Shamaei, Kamran ^a   Sawicki, Gregory S ^b   Dollar, Aaron M ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b Biomedical Research Imaging Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE ANGULAR EXCURSION; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE QUASI STIFFNESS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; STANDING; STATISTICAL MODEL; WALKING SPEED; BIOMECHANICS; KNEE; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WALKING;

BIOMECHANICS; GAIT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WALKING;

EID: 84875345772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059993     Document Type: Article

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