The stretch reflex response in the normal and spastic ankle: Effect of ankle position

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 487-492

  Meinders, Marjan ^a   Price, Robert ^a   Lehmann, Justus F ^a   Questad, Kent A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; MYOTATIC REFLEX; SPASTICITY;

EID: 0029924854     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9993(96)90038-6     Document Type: Article

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