... attributed. Summary: Demonstration of an adaptive mechanism that enables the intrinsic foot muscles to make versatile contributions to whole-body accelerations and decelerations. Intrinsic foot muscles Foot biomechanics Muscle dynamics Foot energetics Australian Research Council...

... both bipedal walking and running. Human evolution Foot biomechanics Longitudinal arch Primate locomotion Running Fossil hominin Human feet differ from those of other animals, including our closest living relatives, the great apes [in this article, we use the term ‘great apes...

... foot biomechanics plantar aponeurosis windlass mechanism computer modelling inverse kinematics The dynamic action of the plantar aponeurosis (PA) is of great biomechanical interest as it represents, together with the long plantar ligament and the spring ligament, one of the main structures...

... of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Calgary, G503, 3330 Hospital Drive, NW Calgary, Alberta, T2N 4N1 Canada 25 11 2008 2009 phalanges gait foot biomechanics bipedalism Australopithecus Humans, as the only obligate bipedal primate, have a highly modified foot...