Impaired "natural reciprocal inhibition" in patients with spasticity due to incomplete spinal cord injury

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 84-92

  Boorman, G I ^a   Lee, R G ^b   Becker, W J ^b   Windhorst, U R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Isometric ankle contraction; Muscle coactivation; Natural reciprocal inhibition; Soleus H reflex; Spasticity; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOTATIC REFLEX; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ADULT; ANKLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 0030044001     PISSN: 0924980X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0924-980X(95)00262-J     Document Type: Article

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