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Horses Damp The Spring In Their Step, Alan M. Wilson, M. Polly Mcguigan, Anne Su, Antonie J. Van Den Bogert
Horses Damp The Spring In Their Step, Alan M. Wilson, M. Polly Mcguigan, Anne Su, Antonie J. Van Den Bogert
Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications
The muscular work of galloping in horses is halved by storing and returning elastic strain energy in spring-like muscle–tendon units1, 2.These make the legs act like a child's pogo stick that is tuned to stretch and recoil at 2.5 strides per second. This mechanism is optimized by unique musculoskeletal adaptations: the digital flexor muscles have extremely short fibres and significant passive properties, whereas the tendons are very long and span several joints3, 4. Length change occurs by a stretching of the spring-like digital flexor tendons rather than through energetically expensive length changes in the muscle5 …
In-Vivo 3d Motion Estimation Of The Shoulder Joint Utilizing Magnetic Resonance Imaging During A Simulated Push Task, D. M. Magnusson, Antonie J. Van Den Bogert, J. L. Ronsky
In-Vivo 3d Motion Estimation Of The Shoulder Joint Utilizing Magnetic Resonance Imaging During A Simulated Push Task, D. M. Magnusson, Antonie J. Van Den Bogert, J. L. Ronsky
Antonie J. van den Bogert
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