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Research Paper
Compensatory Strategies during Manual Wheelchair Propulsion
in Response to Weakness in Individual Muscle Groups: A Simulation Study
Jonathan S. Slowik
a
, Jill L. McNitt-Gray
b,c
, Philip S. Requejo
d,e
,
Sara J. Mulroy
d
and Richard R. Neptune
a
a
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
b
Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA,
USA
c
Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
d
Pathokinesiology Laboratory, Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, Downey, CA,
USA
e
Rehabilitation Engineering, Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, Downey, CA,
USA
Revised Manuscript Submitted to:
Clinical Biomechanics
February 2016
Address correspondence to: Richard R. Neptune, PhD
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
204 E. Dean Keeton Street, Stop C2200
Austin, TX 78712, USA
Email: rneptune@mail.utexas.edu
Tel: 512-471-0848
Fax: 512-471-8727
Keywords: Wheelchair propulsion; forward dynamics simulation; musculoskeletal model; muscle weakness;
muscle fatigue; biomechanics
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