Agonist and antagonist EMG activation during isometric torque development at the elbow in spastic hemiparesis

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology/ Evoked Potentials

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 106-112

  Fellows, S J ^a   Kaus, C ^a   Ross, H F ^a   Thilmann, A F ^a  

^a ALFRIED KRUPP KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Co contraction; Hemiparesis; Isometric; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

ADULT; AGED; ELBOW JOINT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0028220950     PISSN: 01685597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-5597(94)90073-6     Document Type: Article

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