Avtor/Urednik		Olenšek, Andrej; Matjačić, Zlatko; Bajd, Tadej
Naslov		Muscle contracture emulation system
Tip		članek
Vir		In: Proceedings of the International conference on industrial technology IEEE ICIT 2003; 2003 Dec 10-12; Maribor. Maribor: IEEE,
Leto izdaje		2003
Obseg		str. 735-9
Jezik		eng
Abstrakt		In the paper a muscle contracture emulation system for the purposes of studying impact of muscle contractures on human gait is presented. The muscle contracture emulation system was designed to imitate gait of a patient with locomotion disorder originating primarily from muscle contractures in a neurologically and orthopaedically intact person. It is designed to emulate contractures of two ankle plantar flexor muscles soleus and gastrocnemius, but can be simply expanded to other major muscles. Given the emulated muscle contracture as a primary source of an artificially induced gait irregularity, a VICON analysis motion system was used for analysing the resulting gait patterns and separating primary from secondary changes in the gait of intact individuals.
Deskriptorji		CONTRACTURE GAIT ANKLE JOINT KNEE JOINT MODELS, THEORETICAL