Damping of the wrist joint during voluntary movement

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 309-317

  Milner, Theodore E ^a,b   Cloutier, Caroline ^a  

^a Rehabilitation Institute of Montreal   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Damping; Human; Stiffness; Voluntary movement; Wrist

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; JOINT STIFFNESS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WRIST;

ADULT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERIODICITY; REFLEX; VOLITION; WEIGHT-BEARING; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 0031671647     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050519     Document Type: Article

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