Reciprocal inhibition between forearm muscles in patients with writer's cramp and other occupational cramps, symptomatic hemidystonia and hemiparesis due to stroke

Brain

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 1989, Pages 681-697

  Nakashima, K ^a   Rothwell, J C ^a   Day, B L ^a   Thompson, P D ^a   Shannon, K ^a   Marsden, C D ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMIDYSTONIA; HEMIPARESIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CRAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; WRITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; FOREARM; H-REFLEX; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE TONUS; MUSCLES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; REFLEX, MONOSYNAPTIC; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; WRITING;

EID: 0024321888     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/112.3.681     Document Type: Article

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