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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2008 Jan 18;41(4):770–778. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2007.11.022

Table 2.

Inertial data of individual limb segments around local (segmental) axes. The moments of inertia are taken around the segmental center of mass

Length Weight Moment of Inertia (Kg/m^2)
Segment cm kg Med/Lat Sup/Inf Ant/Post
Femoral 25 2.7 0.0166 0.0090 0.0096
Tibiotarsal 42 3.0 0.0306 0.0076 0.0271
Tarsometatarsal 41 0.7 0.0093 0.0002 0.0093
Phalangeal 19 0.3 0.0004 0.0001 0.0005