Five basic muscle activation patterns account for muscle activity during human locomotion
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- 30 March 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Physiology
- Vol. 556 (1), 267-282
- https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.2003.057174
Abstract
An electromyographic (EMG) activity pattern for individual muscles in the gait cycle exhibits a great deal of intersubject, intermuscle and context-dependent variability. Here we examined the issue o...Keywords
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