A method to determine the angular momentum of a human body about three orthogonal axes passing through its center of gravity

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Abstract

A technique to compute three orthogonal components of the angular momentum of the human body is presented. The procedure is basically a development of an earlier one which computed only one component of angular momentum. The angular momentum of the whole body was considered to be composed of the sum of the angular momenta of 14 body segments about the center of gravity of the whole body. The angular momentum of each segment was considered to be composed of a transfer term and a local term. In turn, the local term was considered to be composed of local term about a transverse axis of the segment and local term about the longitudinal axis. The values of all terms were computed, except those of the local terms about the longitudinal axis of the non-trunk segments, which were assumed to be zero. This assumption was shown to involve little error.

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