Muscle force recovery after continuous direct current stimulation of a crushed nerve

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 331-338

  Ribarič, Samo ^a   Stefanovska, Aneta ^a   Vodovnik, Lojze ^a   Cvirn, Pavel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Direct current; Electrical stimulation; Implantable stimulator; Muscle force recovery; Nerve crush; Nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MUSCLE FORCE; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0026761951     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-1992-4504     Document Type: Article

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